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Hi!

Your mag’s great, but when will Ben
Weasel and his ridiculous "enemies” finally
end this boring kindergarten-discussion about
S.E.? Isn’t it a bit embarrassing, regarding
their age, to spend hours with and write
pages about a theme whose importance is
about as big as Ian Stuart’s brain? It looks as
if they were listening to Descendent’sl Don’t
Wanna Grow Up" too much.

Love, Pascal

Dear MRR,

This is in response to "Just another
nigger." Let’s get something straight up front.
I am black, male, 24 and SE. The comments
or actions of any number of racist assholes
cannot change that. Dude, why are you so
negative? If you don’t like the music, why did
you get into it?

From growing up in an all-white subur¬
ban town (Pleasanton, CA) to going to an all-
white school in Hayward, I know the kind of
prejudice and hatred that white people can
inflict on minorities. I spent many of my younger
years wishing I was white. That is the worst
thing to ever happen to me. I’m sure I wasn’t
the only one this has happened to. Of course
I felt like a misfit so by the time I got to high
school I hung out with the other misfits who
didn’t fit in with the blond haired, blue eyed
barbie doll malibu Ken jock and cheerleader
types. For once I was accepted for who I was
instead of what I was.

In saying that black people should not
be in hardcore, you are making a racist
statement. Anybody who wants to can be into
any type of music or life style that they want.
Don’t limit yourself because of the ignorance
of others, the only limits on you are the ones
ou set youself. I will always do exactly what
want. I don’t see myself as anything except
a person. Find inner strength in that and don’t
blame society or the scene.

Think about it.

Eric Fortner/1638 "E" St. #302/Hayward, CA
94541

P.S. Any black str8 edgers or punks
write to me. I know you’re out there. Tell me
about you life and scene. XXX

Dear MRR,

In response to the guy who wrote about
leaving the HC/punk scene in issue #87.1 find
similar conflicts facing me at this moment in
the not so active S.CaTOi-punk scene. I found
many things he had to say to be factual and
discouraging to ethnics in the underground
scene. You find that some “so-called” anti¬
racist groups or organizations, get so involved
with themselves they form a type of gang that
admits no new persons and attacks them.
Sure, if you find ethnics in these organiza¬
tions, but what’s more pathetic is that people
of your own race attack you on the grounds
that you don’t measure on an economic scale
to them!

But I’ve learned to live with this bullshit
for some time now, from almost every angle
of my social structure, I live in south-central
L.A. a few blocks from Watts (which is a black
‘so-called’ ghetto) but which I proudly call
home. Before I lived in a mostly dominated
Hispanic side of Oxnard, CA and that’s where
the Oi music influenced me.

At Manual Arts High (from which I
graduate this year) I would get all this bullshit
from black kids who are paranoid to see a
shaved-head and boots kid around the neigh¬
borhood, until some took time and began to

know me and respect me, and not assume or
relate all shaved heads with nazism. But my
Mexican counter- parts continue to call me a
"Tio Tomas" (Uncle Torn) and other bullshit,
‘cuz their "cholo scene” (Mexican gang shit)
wasn’t my taste. And they can’t understand
why a low class (true working class) mex
would shave his head and listen to punk
music, maybe all he wanted is to be with and
around white people. That's all they assumed
since they are so fuckin’ busy killing their and
my own race!!

I don’t consider myself an Uncle Tom
since I ask nothing of my Anglo friends. I hang
around no one for the simple fact that I know
they (either side, Mex or whites) will not
accept my way of life.

I do listen to Skrewdriver but I don't
agree with most of their thoughts, instead I try
to change them around to fit my views. I don't
think the anglos are a master race, I find that
saying in every group just that these anglos
repeat it more. I think it’s fine to love your race,
but not to Skrewdriver’s point.

But they (white supremacists) don’t
understand or act as if they don’t understand
that America has never been and will never
be a pure white country! And we ethnics
should and must stay in the scene to show
these humans that we may be of different
cultures and both praise our own race with
the words of Skrewdriver. (Like “Don’t let
them pull you down, Mexican" in my view).
We are in neither of our fatherland. We are in
the land of the Sioux, Mohawk, Navajo, etc...

When you go back to England, Ger¬
many, I will go back to Mexico. But all this
bigot shit come from middle class suburbia,
remember "Oi" (true skins in England came
from the poor working class) and who is the
working class here in America? Yes, illegal
Mexicans (mostly Indian Mexicans or cross
breeds). But dia this government ask the
legal land owners permission to form a gov¬
ernment in their land? America was formed
by illegal English Mayflower people - they
have no right to say who is illegal or not. So I
hope the Afro-American who wrote the letter
views my point. I would much rather fight a
white supremacist for a cause, than a person
of my own race for the color of my pants.
Wake up stupid Chicanos, you don’t kill any¬
one else but your own race!

Fransisco Shanchez

To "Just Another Nigger" from MRR #87, and
all other seperatists...

Why does everything have to be black
and white? Your attitude and ideals match
that of the same people you put down. You
read oppression into every white person.
Then you try to draw other blacks into your
beliefs by the very charismatic but stupid
tactic of offering "acceptance" as one of the
group. These are the same tactics the KKK
used when they tried to recruit some of my
friends (it didn’t work - they have minds of
their own.)

Prejudices exist everywhere, I won’t
deny that... but good people can beat down
their bigotries through patience, tolerance,
and understanding. Separatism only creates
fear and animosity... And don’t you dare tell
me I don't understand. I don’t have a race. I’m
a mutt. I don’t know what race(s) I am and I
could care less. I have been shunned by both
blacks and whites (and just about everyone
else) inthepast.Thetruefriends I havefound
are black, white, and "in-between"... and we
know race only counts for skin color not

brains. By the way, just where do I (and the
rest of the melting-pot kids) fit into your bril¬
liant (not!) plans of separatism? I guess you
will have to "weed out" all of the impurities,
right? Nazi. Oh, when speaking of separat¬
ism why don't all of you stupid fucks consider
that America is neither the blacks nor the
whites to take... the native Americans were
here first and they believed that man belonged
to the Earth (not the other way around). Too
bad we fucked it up.

Now let’s consider rap. Yeah, I’m sure
the rap groups tell you what you want to hear,
but then again, that sells records doesn’t it?
Are there any honest, DIY, independent rap
labels? If so i would love to hear about them
because I only see profit-hungry, fashion¬
conscious, product-endorsing, mass-media,
make-a-buck, phoniness. If these rap groups
care so much why don't they lower the cost of
their records? Why do they release complete
albums of re-mixes which are little more than
re-arranged versions of previously released
songs? Hardcore labels/bands are not com¬
pletely guiltless in this area but they try a hell
of a lot more than other types of music.

A far as the HC "scene" goes... well, I
think many people become frustrated and
disenchanted with it because they feel that it
will be a unified group of friends. Well, it isn’t.
The “scene" has all of the dicks and cliques
that appear at all other levels of society. Like
every place you have to know who your
friends are, know who you can tolerate, and
know who you have to stay away from.

Most people earn acceptance through
a friendship. Let down your guard and you
could eitherget hurt or gain a friend... Taking
the chance is worth it to me. Don't be so bitter.
"Just a mutt" (and proud of it!)

Dear Mr. Weasel,

We are two disgruntled punk rock fans
who wish to make a few comments about
your article in MRR#87 (as well asafew other
things that we just feel like spouting off about).
First of all, we’d like to say that we are great
big fans of your mighty cool but short-lived
punk rock band SCREECHING WEASEL.
One day, however, we were listening to
YOUTH BRIGADE’s Sound& Furv album and
we just happened to come across a little ditty
called “Did You Wanna Die?" Whoa. Sounds
a wee little bit like "My Right" (one of your
rippin’ tunes). Seeing's as how the Youth
Brigade album is practically ancient and "My
Right" is on yr. Boogadaboogadaboogada
album from 1988, it seems like a bit of, shall
we say, tribute is being paid to the Youth
Brigade by you, you weasel. Make your own
conclusions.

Secondly, while we may admire your
ex-band, we think that personally you are full
of shit. It’s not like we’re just jumping on the
"Slag Ben Weasel" bandwagon, but hey! Let’s
look at the facts. You stated that ALL and/or
the DESCENDENTS areoldandarecashing
in on merely what they've done in the past.
Rehashing, that is. Why the hell do you thing
the Descendents changed their name? Right!
To avoid having the situation of ALL being
blindly accepted by old Descendents fans.
With three complete albums as ALL, we really
don’t understand where you’re cornin’ from
(Besides that, we just saw ALL in concert a
few weeks back. When was the last time
Screeching Weasel played?). Other state¬
ments of yours that we disagree (to put it
mildly) with are these: "Fuck the work ethic,
Mr. Seconds"; hell, the whole article, includ-

ing your comments about Ian and Jello. Now
wait a minute. What the hell is wrong with a
work ethic? Lemme tell you something, Ben.
I only paid $8 to see 7 SECONDS and got 1
1/2 hours of their classictunes, new and old...
some so new we didn't know what they were,
plus a LED ZEPPELIN cover (oh fuck that,
Ben. They did update it, and he didn’t know
the words, either. So don’t even bother taking
the “classic rock dinosaur" angle, okay?).
Now we’d sure rather pay a little and get a lot
(epitomizing the work ethic) than vise-versa.
you, an oppressed working man, can surely
find no fault with this. Now, about Messrs.
MacKaye and Biafra. Look, Mac—FUGAZI’s
show was a mere $5, for which we saw both
Fugazi and the HOLY ROLLERS. During the
course of the concert, Ian told the skinheads
to quit being “a bunch of pussies” as he put it
(that in itself puts him and his band miles
ahead of the pack). They proceeded to play
for a long, long time. It would’ve been worth
three times what we paid. Besides that, we
finally got brute honesty from a band, instead
of having someone like GANG GREEN kiss
our asses and reassure us that yeah, they
really do think (city’s name here) is the best
fuckin' rock town etc, etc. Blah, blah, blah
bullshit, bullshit.

As for Jello, well... Ben, at least he has
the balls to take a stand on an issue that he
not only believes in but one that actually
matters instead of just bitching about how
much he hates his job and how it just ain’t cool
to have to keep shellin’ out for beer and
cigarettes. Look, Ben, let us finally get to the
point. Stop fucking whining and record some¬
thing. All of the above mentioned bands are,
let’s just say, way way more-influential and
important than you will ever be if you don't get
off your worthless, whiny, self-congratulatory
ass and try to be a recording artist again. You
see, what you say about other bands or
performers isn’t worth shit if you aren’t one
yourself.

Yours truly,

Matt Kucha and Ken Blaze

P.S. In the meantime (before you re¬
hash Screeching Weasel and get rich off your
past) could you try to get a job you like (to, at
the very least, spare us your overabundant
self-pity at the direction your worthless life is
apparently heading)?

Dear Ben Weasel,

I enjoyed your article in issue 87 of
Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll which shed light on
both record selling scams and the way com¬
mercials are used to brain wash people. But
what’s most interesting is your hypocritical
cynical attitude throughout the whole article.

You bitch about how sex is used in
commercials to boost sales and that’s true.
However, just a few pages away is an adver¬
tisement for your film that promises “punks,
blood, sex and dirt.”

You stated in your article that “people
are basically fucking sick.” Another interest¬
ing comment was “the name of the disease is
greed (artificial happiness) and everyone of
you sad, sad pukes has got it just as bad as
Mr. Trump." Now that's interesting coming
from somebody who’s peddling his own “X"
rated movie on everybody for twenty-five
bucks.

When you point your finger at some¬
body in criticism you usually find five other
people pointing back at you for doing the
same thing or something worse.

That s all I have to say. And remember,

you may be disgusted with yourself, but I
really, really like you.

Keep up the good work, sincerely Charles
Hughes/6451 Iroquois Rd./Westminster, CA
92683

Dear Mr. Weasel,

To think this could be my lucky day - I
don’t want to sound too overconfident but I do
believe I’ve got the 5 major differences be¬
tween SST and A&M that you requested in
the last issue (MRR#87).

1) Higher salaries. A&M’s got um - SST
doesn't. 2) (and rather important) Women.
A&M's got bands with women in ‘um while
SST is greatly lacking in that aspect (L7’s on
an SST comp and they’ve got Kira on the old
Black Flag shit, also Opal - what is that? 5%
female?). My friend said that Sylvia Juncosa
complained about it in an interview and that
contributed to them parting ways - who
knows.) 3) SST does mailorder-A&M doesn’t.
4) SST has signed their handwritten letters off
with "Peace and Love” while it’s hard to
believe that A&M would do the same. 5) SWA
(the band) is on SST - nowhere else could
that happen.

So that’s it. I really hope I won the free
dream date with Martin Sprouse. Can’t imag¬
ine what a vegetarian and a vegan will do at
Howard's House of Steak but I am optimistic
about enjoying the experience regardless.
Please contact me as soon as the contest
results are in. Thanks -
Darby, Ben is Dead magazine/ PO Box 3166/
Hollywood, CA 90028

Dear MRR,

I am writing on behalf of BREAKFAST
WITHOUT MEAT, the humor and music zine
formerly out of San Francisco, now in New
Mexico. One of your zine reviewers, Donna
Dresch, made the accusation in MRR #87
that BREAKFAST WITHOUT MEAT editors
are supporters of Operation Rescue (notori¬
ous rig ht-to-lif ers,) due to her
misinterperetation of our piece in BWM #13,
“Towards Effective Serial Abortions." That’s
the kind of irresponsible accusation that re¬
ally must be contested, even though the kind
of people who repeat such unfounded, in¬
flammatory statements will probably do so
anyway. Luckily, our regular readers will just
snicker at such an absurd suggestion.

Our magazine is not written for knee-
jerk simpletons. Most of our readers can
tolerate a little humorous exploration of the
gray area between the politically correct po¬
sition and actual reality, which — I guess I
can’t take it for granted that everyone’s got
this far yet — DON’T ALWAYS COINCIDE.
So we don’t have to stick to safe subjects. But
we were careful anyway. The first sentence of
the article read "We here at BWM think
abortion should be legal,” and went on to
explain we weren't lampooning the small
percentage of terminated pregnancies that
were a result of rape or incest OR those that
resulted from birthcontrol failure. Consider¬
ing BWM is a HUMOR mag and usually
doesn’t explain anything, we were being pretty
explicit, so it’s really hard to believe how
completely Dresch missed the boat on this
one. The remaining millions of abortions could
hardly ALL have been immaculate concep¬
tions, could they? Millions of pregnancies
happen because women feel so guilty and
conflicted about sex that they can’t prepare
for it rationally. We were making fun of the
attitude that you’ve got to clench your teeth,

shut your eyes to the implications, and pre¬
tend you’re not really doing it. For goodness’
sake, we were just suggesting that people
use their imaginations to feel wicked and
tawdry during sex, if that's a prerequisite to
their orgasms, instead of just being naughty
through the old cop out of no birth control. We
were saying that it’s a pity that sex so often
takes place in an environment of guilt and
ambivalence when it’s one of the few groovy
things we can do for ourselves in an enlight¬
ened state, on this dying planet. But Dresch
was too busy on dogma patrol to pick this up.

I am a feminist who believes abortions
should be safe and legal. But I am not a true
believer in any party fine that says all abor¬
tions are so holy and glorious that they can’t
even be questioned or discussed. At this
point, the ideological case for legal abortion
ought to be on firm enough ground that it
won’t topple if someone suggests we be more
careful not to get pregnant. Only faulty ide¬
ologies need iron clad dogma and trigger
happy name callers to preserve them. Re¬
sponses like Dresch’s to a cynical jab at
casual abortion make me want to ask "Are
you pro-choice or pro-ABORTION?” There IS
a difference. Abortion should not be consid¬
ered a valiant, life affirming expression of
women’s strugglefor freedom. It’s something
you have to do when you’re between a rock
and a hard place. Gregg and I aren’t armchair
cynics. We believe in activism, try to be
decent people, and try to be consistent in our
philosophies. We are vegan and live in as
cruelty-free a household as we can, and just
as we believe that participating in a food
system that imprisons and slaughters our
fellow earthlings for food and human gratifi¬
cation can make one callous and indifferent
to suffering, so conceiving and destroying 5
fetuses before the age of 30 as a result of
laziness or ambivalence or having been told
it’s "okay" can result in a deadening of wonder
at the fact that, if you want, you can create
another human being by making love. If that
sounds too corny, stick with the bleak bill of
oods modern science has sold you.
roceedures such as abortion use drugs and
surgical implements and techniques that are
tested on animals, as well as vast amounts of
non-reusable resources, not to mention the
toll they take on the body’s natural
equilibrium.So if possible, the whole thing
should really be avoided. The CHOICE in
"pro-choice" really ought to be expressed
BEFORE getting pregnant by making the
choice NOT TO. I think it’s fairly natural to
feel, as I do, that the killing of the innocent is
a no-no, even if they are just little blobs, but
since human beings can be so miserable and
do so much damage to the world and those
around them, and use up so many resources,
especially if their parents don't have the time,
love or means to bring them up well, I have to
concede, okay, if you’ve got to, kill them early.
Sounds ugly but I’m just telling it like it is. The
fact that we're not thrilled with the idea of
abortion does not make us religious fanatics
(we’re atheists) or crusading right-to-lifers. Is
it possible for people like Dresch to handle
the ambiguity of believing that something
should be legal but shoula be avoided any¬
way? Or must everything be in black and
white?

There’s an idea floating around femi¬
nist circles that "women’s values" are inher¬
ently more humanistic than "patriarchal val¬
ues." That, perhaps, remains to be seen, but
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going to have to clean up our act. If we expect
men to give up some traditionally male privi¬
leges in the name of “equality," we may nave
to part with some traditionally female pre¬
rogatives— naivetee, indecision, irresponsi¬
bility, playing the innocent victim. I hear voices
whining, "But men should have to take re¬
sponsibility for birth control too!" Yeah, so find
the ones that do, if you want, but let’s face it,
we’re the ones who get pregnant, there are
several methods available to us and a little
extra responsibility might possibly be con¬
sidered a fair trade-off for actually getting to
produce the little critters when we eventually
want to. Or does everybody always have to
insist on getting to have their cake and eat it
too?

I’m tempted to suggest that Dresch use
more caution about labels like “Operation
Rescue," but in the current climate, that’d just
be whistling into the wind. By the way, the line
that BWM “is the funniest mag that I've read
in so long..." did not go unnoticed. Thanks.
Next time try to put two and two together
instead of just going for the bait.

Sincerely, Lizzy Kate Gray, co-editor
Breakfast Without Meat/ PO Box 15927/ Santa
Fe, NM 87506

Dear Lizzie Kate Gray,

I’m glad that you wrote back. I certainly
doubt that everyone who reads these fanzine
reviews are “regular readers” of BMW so I
think i’s important that you clarified your
stance here. Your piece was two pages of
mean-spirited one liners. And reading it
again I still feel the same. Sure you say a lot
of informative things in your letter which might
help some women think about preventive
pregnancy measures. But your articles is
totally callous and only insults instead creating
some kind of positive change. I don’t feel that
women should have to fill out a form or a
checklist to make sure that they were having
an abortion on the “OK” level. Why do you
need to know so badly WHY someone has to
have an abortion ? It hardly seems like your
breaking the taboos of what is or is not funny.
Of course, this is all my opinion. I didn’t think
it was funny. Oh well. If your so bothered by
the fact that knee-jerk simpletons like me
might be buying and reading your fanzine,
you might want to take some precautions.
Work on that “buyer Questionnaire” Why
don’t ‘cha.

Love, donna.

Dear MRR,

I'm writing in response to a letter signed
“Just another nigger," issue #87. I’ll just call
him J.a.n. for short.

First of all it seems like the writer of this
letter has been through some rough times
and has had some bad experiences within his
scene and that’s kind of sad. I agree with
some of his points though different parts of
his letter made react in different ways and I
often caught myself wondering if the writer of
this letter actually was black or just another
dumb bonehead trying to push his views.
Anyway for the sake of argument we’ll as¬
sume that the writer is black as he so claims.

First of all, Jan, you have every right to
leave or stop doing anything that you feel
uncomfortable with, but when you start sug¬
gesting that other blacks should leave their
scenes just because you couldn’t adapt then
that’s where you’re dead wrong. It seems to
me that the major problem wasn’t with your
scene itself but with your frame of mind and

the way that you view things because despite
their racism that runs rampant in your scene,
other blacks have adjusted quite well and
unlike you, many of them are working hard to
fight the problem instead of running away
from it like you are. It might sometimes seem
like they are fighting an unwinnable war as
you put it, but sometimes no matter what the
odds may be, you just can’t give in to back¬
ward ideologies like fascism. The fight must
last as long as the threat exists and that might
not sound too appealing to a person like you
but if the world was f illea with people with your
frame of mind there would be no progress. My
hat goes off to all the blacks as well as other
minorities that have to put up with all the racist
bullshit that that goes on in their scenes and
a pat on the back to those who have enough
guts to organize and fight against it.

Another point that I would like to bring
up is the group that you hung out with while
you were in the scene. Whenever people are
new to a scene and want to fit in and belong,
they always think that they need to join some
faction or subgroup (mod, rude boy, skinhead,
straight edge, crustie, smoothie, rasta, etc.)
so that they can belong even more if that’s
even possible. I never really ever felt that
need but some people do and tothose people
here’s a helpful hint: If you are a minority who
feels a need to join a group in your scene it is
usually a good idea to choose a group that is
not as conservative and uniform as straight
edge or skinhead. The people and bands that
form these factions usually have images that
support right wing themes that are not always
sympathetic to the concerns or needs of
minorities. In other words the mindsets of the
people in these groups is not usually as
tolerant as the left wing factions. I’m not
putting down straight edge or skinhead music
because some of it is great, but the quirky little
racist comments are usually less prevalent in
the less conservative circles.

Like I said before it was not the scene
that was the major cause of your problems
but your frame of mind. Case in point: What
the hell was a black separatist doing trying to
integrate himself into a white-dominated
scene! Think about it, in your letter you claim
not to be a “staunch integrationist” and then
you mope about how you couldn’t integrate
yourself into a white-dominated scene! My
friend, you were doomed from the beginning.
Any black or minority that wants to be part of
a scene must realize and be ready to accept
the fact that he will mostly be dealing with
whites since they usually outnumber blacks.
This is common knowledge and not only must
you realize this fact but you must also be
comfortable with it.

Your letter hits me hard because like
you I’m a black kid in a mostly white scene
and I try to make it a point to visit other scenes
as often as I’m able to, and in those scenes
I’ve made lasting friendships with other mi¬
norities that are in the same shoes as I am.
Although we would agree with some of your
points T can speak for them also when I say
that your “all blacks should leave their scenes
and listen to rap music" attitude disgusts me.
Why not enjoy both forms of expression at the
same time? Is that something that you are
unable to do?

Another reason that I feel that your little
experiment with "white culture" failed is be¬
cause it seems to me that you lacked a
genuine love for the music itself. The love for
the music is the common bond and one of the
main elements that keeps us together. That

might sound a little corny but being addicted
to the music itself is in my opinion the prime
requisite because if a genuine love of the
music is missing then your chances of appre¬
ciating the whole subculture will be very low.

Like I said before I do agree with some
of your points like your comments about the
characteristics of a racist society. And your
comment about how it’s impossible to reason
with a nazi. And how fairness is not a domi¬
nating element in the nazi mind. It also seems
like common sense is not quality that fascists
have. The problem lies in the fact that their
way of thinking does not leave open the forum
of debate or argument in which one would be
able to showthem how their philosophy is full
of holes or how their ideology is bankrupt.
That being the case, the only way to have a
successful debate with a nazi is by talking to
him in a language that he will understand. On
this issue I tend to side with the militant anti-
nazi organizations that refuse to tolerate it on
any level. If they can’t understandthe language
of reason then we must resort tothe language
of violence, which by the way seems to be
much more effective in the battle against the
nazis. They must be told in a language that
they can understand that their ignorance will
not be tolerated and that they are not welcome.

Jan, I feel sorry for you because you
were open-minded enough to venture out
and try something new, too bad it didn’t work
out but the next time you think of saying
something as stupid as what you said in your
last paragraph, think of the few black punk
bands and bands with minorities in them that
have stayed true to the cause and didn’t give
up when the going got rough. Think of the
ones that make songs that sing out against
racism so that people like you and me can be
better accepted in our scenes. Also think of
the minorities that have suffered verbal or
physical abuse at the hands of bigots but
never considered leaving the scene because
for them their involvement and the music was
more than an experiment and had become a
way of life.

Good luck with your rap music and
don’t lose that open mind.

J.P./ Louisville, KY

Dear MRR staff & readers,

I’m writing this letter to update my pre¬
vious one which was published in your May
issue concerning the situation in Italian
univesities. As I wrote in that letter, our gov¬
ernment is trying to sell our schools to big
corporations, instead of continuing to finance
them with State money. This is certainly a big
attempt to our freedom of study, that can’t be
guaranteed in a University where the money
is provided by industries that are only worried
about raising money and increasing their
profits. That’s why a big protest movement
rose up at the beginning of this year, and
many Universities and high schools were
sauatted by students as a form of protest,
when I was writing my previous letter (at the
end of February) the protest was reaching its
apex and we were all fucking enthusiastic
about what was going on, because forthe first
time after so many years (let’s say 10 years)
students, helped intheirstrugglebythe whole
alternative world, were finally going back on
the streets to protest. That was February, but
now we are on July and the only thing I can
sadly say is that once again APATHYwON
over willingful people. In fact, whilethe summer
was approaching with its charge of exams
and so on, the big part of the protesters began

to realize that after all the selling of the
universities to corporations was not the big¬
gest problem in this world, and that there
were so many worse things, such as passing
exams or preparing summer holidays. As a
consequence the protest ended as fast as it
was born a few months earlier. So that’s what
happened here; I'm very sad about this, also
because I received letters from MRR readers
that were enthusiastic about our protest and
complaining about American students’ atti¬
tudes, too much conformity and success-
oriented. Sorry folks, but evidently all over the
world it’s all tne same old story, and Italian
people are not different..

Anyway this doesn't mean that every¬
body quit the struggle; on the contrary there
are still people working all over Italy waiting
for the end of summer in order to keep back
the protest. Also because the thing can’t be
considered closed ‘cause the infamous law
has not been yet voted by our parliament and
(in a very Italian way) iscertainly lying in some
Senator's drawer, waiting for a most propitious
moment to be voted. And our intention is to
stay alert not to be fooled.

Changing subjects, a few weeks ago
the squatters of "c.s.a. Leoncavallo,” the big¬
gest European squatted youth center, were
condemned for their resistance to the police
that intervened to “free” the center (because
the owner of the building wanted to build a big
parking lot on its ruins). But the judges, while
condemning the squatters (anyway not to the
maximum punishment), acknowledged the
importance of the social service provided by
Leoncavallo (and this is an important, even if
only moral victory). Besides during the trial
the building was squatted again and now is
alive and kicking. So if you plan to visit Milano
be sure to visit it (via Leoncavallo 22).

Also the squatters of my hometown
(Pisa) youth center ("c.s.a. Macchia Nera")
were processed for their activities (among
other things they took a big part in University
protests here in Pisa), but they were judged
innocent and that’s very good because as a
consequence the pigs will problably stop trying
to close it down by any means. So during
these days the activities have gone on, with a
rotest-camping in front of an American army
ase (Camp Darby) in the woods around
Pisa.

I think that’s all, and sorry again for all of
ou who thought something different could
appen here in Italy. Anyway keep writing to
me to the same address: Riki/ C.P.15/ 56030
Calcinaia (Pisa)/ Italy

P.S. As I was saying last time, our
Parliament passed a law according to which
now drugs are a big crime and other minor
laws that are seriously attempting to limit our
freedoms (a new prohibitionist era?). To pro¬
test against this trend, WIDE RECORDS and
other alternative groups put out a compilation
LP (called "rock contro il proibizionismo") with
many international bands, the profits of which
will finance various anti-prohibitionist groups
here in Italy (sorry I don’t know the price;
anyway read MRR for their ads,or write to
Wide Rees/ c.p.309/ 56100 Pisa, Italy).

This is the last straw,

It has been rather easy to ignore all this
condensending badmouthing that has been
going on in this publication. Most of the insults
have been aimed at bands I’ve never liked
anyways, i.e. Warzone and Bad Brains.

How come everyone is slandering
Rollins as a homophobe all of the sudden?

Did you run out of people to slag?

Anyone who says that Rollins is a fag-
basher is either a liar or has not read "Hallu¬
cinations of Grandeur.” I think it’s a shame all
you straight edged 'tards have to insult the
only worthy figure in punk-rock left.

It’s just as well, because everyone in¬
volved w/this rag has betrayed this so-called
'scene' — which is what you proudly proclaim
it as — as the meaningless clique it's all
become. It’s all taken over by the high school
jock mentality. What one of my history in¬
structors told me long ago is holding true in
yourcase: that there are certain people who...
as well as demonstrating their horrifying af¬
fliction of diarrhea of the mouth, they have yet
another problem — constipation of the mind.
The readership of MRR reeks so much of
ignorance it makes me wonder if any of you
have ever read a book.

It’s so bad, it’s embarrassing that even
anyone w/ any kind innovation or legitimate
expression would even get a mention in MRR.
The garbage that spews out of this rag every
month takes me away from punk rock ana
more into industrial. At least Illusion of Safety,
Club Moral, Grey Wolves, Intrinsic Action or
Terre Blanche will never get mentioned here.

And I don’t care what you think about
Terre Blanche. I’ll admit I don’t agree w/their
views—I’ll even admit I used to attack the
band before I did more research. The real
truth is that Terre Blanche do not have any
connection w/ extreme political factions and
do not appear to be violent. If you are really
concerned, anyone who writes to me can asK
for M. Sanderson’s address. He might be
objectionable, but he won’t bite.

MRR used to be informative, but has
now deteriorated into National Enquirer ma¬
terial. If people don’t grow up, MRR will be of
no use, and punk rock will die.

Lawrence J. Patti/47 Daley Blvd./ Rochester
NY, 14617

P.S. If anyone is really into industrial
shit, I don’t know anyone who is as serious
about it as I. Please write.

P.P.S. To Dan Lisson: I know we don't
see each other too much. I’ve never had the
nerve tosaythis, but out of thefewfriends I’ve
had you’ve been the most memorable. You
have influenced my life to this very day. Good
luck, buddy!

"DE-GENERATE”

To start out with I’d like to thank Charlie
Chan in #83. His perspectives on gun control
are totally correct.

It's about time people started to come
forward and confront all the "new love gen¬
eration." It is quite apparent that it is in the
gov’ts best interest to instill gun control.

Speaking of perspectives, I’ve been
away from the scene for a couple of years
now (more like my entire life to tell the truth),
and started reading MRR again with #82.

You know, it’s really scaiy! Some you
people that write in or for this zine are totally
washed - not acid but brain!!!

Some of you are using the scene as a
crutch. "No guns, no self betterment, no edu¬
cation, no enlightenment, no thought." All in
the name of some rebellion against "society.”

Just because you don't want the "Typi¬
cal American Life" doesn't mean you have to
go for the extreme. Who benefits if you drop
out of school or quit your job?

For that matter, take time to hate, be
sedate and isolate?

Definitely not yours or to the scene you

hide behind. Sure the gov’t sucks! But that’s
no reason not to get into a position to make
some real change.

"Oh sure sell out and waterdown your
principles." NO!! Just don’t give everything a
label without really listening to every side. Get
ahead doesn’t mean sell out- let me rephrase
that- Don't cut off your nose inspite of your
face.

Start the change in society with yourself
- and don’t forget the time space quantum
theory - and to quote P. from the Avengers:
"Open your eyes when they tell you lies"

By the way, FUCK YOU!

G.F.H./ PO Box 71110/ Ft Bragg, NC 28307

Dear Ignoramus’,

I have been reading your "groovy"
magazine on and off now for approximately
six years and even though my musical tastes
have completely traversed 360 degrees in
that time I still flip through occasionally for a
good hearty laugh.

I have two gripes. Firstly, what is all of
this silly hype with all of this shit-pop gar¬
bage? To me it is not the second coming of
"punk rock" like a lot of little college nobodies
think, it is merely the latest fad; classic rock
(attitudes and all) repackaged in a newformat
and bottled up in a saleable package for easy
convenience to sucker people into thinking it
has some basis in legitimacy, which of course
it doesn’t. Fortunately, I refuse to pander to
this particular fad and I am actually vehe¬
mently opposed to it. I have almost strangled
several scraggly-haired, striped shirt, three
day beard, bespeckled types who have got¬
ten into verbal arguments with me concern¬
ing SubPop's aestheticism and its (non-exis¬
tent) validity. If these retards like "classic
rock" so much then why do they adhere to
"punk rock?" This perpetually escapes me
and revolts me in no small measure. Then
there’s the matter of that dolt Steve Albini.
Once a halfway intelligent, though always
somewhat idiotic person he was responsible
for the mighty Big Black. What happened?
Now he adamantly hates anything "progres¬
sive" or "synthesized" and adheres to the
stupidity of the "pure form” (garage rock) as if
it's a religious experience. Did he see Meatloaf
or Tad in a dream, similar to seeing Jesus and
become born again? I have a feeling that this
is what happened. Yecch! How sophomoric
and ignorant; that brings me to my other
gripe.

Anyone with a half of a brain (excluding
our illustrious pal Albini) can see the true new
age of "punk rock." The utilization of current
technological gadgetry combined with the
proper attitude is obviously the dawning of a
new era as far as "Rock’n’Roll" is concerned.
This is quickly manifesting itself more and
more and in bands such as Ministry, Dessau
and most importantly Revolting Cocks.

Idiots who repeatedly put "Wax Trax"
bands down to being derivative disco are just
close-minded and shortsighted. I almost mar¬
vel at the limits of their feigned intelligence.
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and synthesizers have no soul. I don’t want to
hear music made by computers, I want to
hear ’music’ made by scumbags who rely on
feedback and grunge to put their moot points
across.” Fuck that, it's how you use technol¬
ogy which is important you idiots. If it’s grunge
you want go listen to your Sonic Galore
Garden records but just leave me alone, I
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raise my feelin's one
more time..
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Ex-Angry Samoan / Vox Pop / Power Trip
vocal God Jeff Dahl steps out with his first
legitimate solo album — featuring Cheetah
Chrome of the Dead Boys, the Lazy Cowgirls
and the Angry Samoans. The music is pure,
jacked-up rock 'n' roll — large on fun, high
on energy and devoid of pretense. Jeff has
been described by the L.A. Weekly as
"...a confirmed worshipper at the church
of RAW power:'

lize synthesizers sound as prosaic and tame
as, say, Erasure does. The “disco" or dance
element can be seen as part of the rebellious
attitude. Utilizing something as hated as disco
(70s style of course) is part of the "punk”
aspect. Look at My Life With The Thrill Kill
Kult for details.

Anyway, getting back to point number
two. What the hell??? The review for Revolt¬
ing Cocks “Beers, Steers & Queers" the true
archetype of neo-punk, chockfull of sarcasm,
humour and attitude, was far less than chari¬
table. It is the album of the decade, sure to
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take in the ’90s as well as in the 21 st century.
The album is a masterpiece! The review says
“Too much dance, not enough rock" - you
idiot! Are you kidding? If not I suggest going
back to junior high school. If you want “Hock %
go listen to Judas Priest!

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are going to expire forthwith if your obsolete
opinions aren’t revamped, rethought and re¬
worked. Lastly, wake up and smell the ’90s.
Get out of the retro 70s fad and get with what
intelligent people have known for years.
Thanks for listening dimwits,

Lord Alexander Littlewit Jr.

Dear Folks,

This is for anyone who thinks they’re
punk rock gods because they live in the East
Bay.

Do people even care anymore? I never
thought I'd even enter into this argument, but
after all this time being a loyal Gilman sup¬
porter, I think it's rapidly becoming a joke
(excuse me, became a joke). I’m getting sick
of people telling me how lucky I am to have
access to the place; I’m starting to think I’d be
better off if I stayed home and listened to
records. I called up there today trying to get
ahold of a friend and got all kinds of rudeness
from people I’ve been working there with
since god (ha) knows when... I got hung up on
twice (very amusing) and the worst rendition
oftheStar Spangled Bannersince Roseanne
Barr. Needless to say, I never did get to talk
to my friend.

Anyway, these are the same people
who gave me shit about moving to Fresno.
"Fresno!?! What hick town - why would you
want to live there?" etc., etc. A little about
Fresno: the scene out here is kind of small (it
is a hick town) but there are still such things
as respect and appreciation for what little
scene we do have and we don’t dick people
around. So to all you snide East Bay uber
alles types, Fuck You!!! (with a few excep¬
tions). You don’t even know how to appreci¬
ate what you’ve got!! You’re rude to strang¬
ers, you dick each other around, and you’re
living in a scene someone else had to build for
you. Yet you try to discourage us because
we’re just not cool enough to have everything
spoon-fed to us. We’ll see who’s better off.
Jennifer Emick/ PO Box 25283/ Fresno, CA
93729-5283

People,

Oh, lam sorry, I’m just not punk enough
for some of you guys and I don't keep up with
Maximum HocknRoll like a religous fanatic.
But somehowthere is one always winding up
in my box and except for the occasional
interviews with Capitol Punishment and Pink
Lincolns and other bands that I like I usually
toss it aside and pick up good book or go to
sleep. But as of late I have been noticing
something that has been going on for a long

time, since 77 I guess and I guess that it
would be the most punk thing to do, change
your name! Mike Bullshit, this is for you.

Yeah these people with names like
Johnny Puke, Mike Bullshit and Steve Snot
who really care about certain issues expect
me to listen to them? You expect me to follow
a guy with the name Mike Bullshit. With a
name like that I expect him to be full of
bullshit. They want to change the world and
make it better place for all of us peace and
good will and change and sexual and racial
Freedom. You know that it is good but how do
you expect people to follow you with a dis¬
gusting name man! How about a name like
Mike Nice Guy or Mike Vegetarian or some¬
thing. The only people that will follow you are
GG Allin dropouts who only like you for your
name and not your principles.

So go look in the mirror, bring a thesau¬
rus if you must or use your real name for
goodness sake. You’ll get a lot more support
and have the people that are really not fight¬
ing for your cause leave you alone. OK?
Michael Broyles, The River City

Dear M.R.R,

Yesterday I encountered the most off
the wall person in the world. Words cannot
describe the mental state of this scum suck¬
ing shithead. The person I am speaking of is
a con man and a liar. He tells you stories how
bad his life was and is. "My mother was a
whore, and my father was a drunk, my wife is
disabled." So what. Everyone has problems.
Don’t expect pitty from me, you 40-year-old
child molester tnat cares so much about
keeping the so called scene alive and charges
$9 to get into his shithole where he puts on
shows. Beware of this man, I saw him listed
in the last MRR and hope he is never listed
again. If he is, this scumbag will continue to
rip off bands the way he ripped off my band.
Fie gave us aguarantee and ended up paying
us a quarter of it. He said he promoted the
show very well. Nobody saw any fliers or
promotion. Of course he has answers for
everything. He said the other place that is
doing shows, goes around and rips down his
fliers. Anyway let's get to the good stuff.
When we found out we were getting paid so
little of course we exchanged some words
and this guy just lost control, flipping over
tables, slamming his hands down screaming
at us. We were the ones that should have
been pissed. Then to top things off he grabbed
a bat and threatened us. Then he assaulted
a girl that was with us. I am sure this has
happened before. This must stop.

So all bands beware of: UNISOUND
PRODUCTIONS/ 243 N8 St./ Reading, PA -
The maniac's name is Jake the Flake.

Mark Neuman/ Sheer Terror

Attention:

The following letter’s purpose is to shed
insighton a particular Pennsylvaniapromoter
and club owner who has been involving himself
in unscrupulous practices for too long. The
club is Unisound in Reading, PA, and its
owner/promoter’s name is Jake. Although
followingthe aftermath of last week’s SHEER
TERROR show it is highly unlikely he will
continue operating Unisound — his under¬
handed dealing should be exposed.

In SHEER TERROR'S case, Jake guar¬
anteed manager Bill Wilson $400, which Jake
later stiffed them on. The band was paid
$100. The reason: not enough people at¬
tended. This is a fallacy unto itself as the door

cost was $9 and at least 60 of the 120 in
attendance paid. With this in mind, a club that
has no expenses other than paying the bands
Jake should have easily made due with
SHEER TERROR’S guarantee. For reasons
unknown, at the end of the evening, Jake had
a little over $100. And, no, Jake, I'm not
insinuating that you took a nice wad of cash
out of the club’s premises and rambled over
to your studio down the street.

To further exacerbate matters, Jake
attempts to dock SHEER TERROR'S pay¬
ment over a broken window! Needless to say
an extremely tense situation rears its ugly
head as band members and various others
surround Jake in a corner. The place ex¬
plodes when Jake attempts to hit Paul’s girl¬
friend with a baseball bat. No physical harm
came to the Unisound promoter since the
remaining members of SHEER TERROR had
to restrain Paul from touching him. The only
physical abuse to hit Jake came in the form of
candy being tossed at him. During the time
when SHEER TERROR were holding Paul in
check a lot of equipment was damaged. It’s
unlikely they will be blamed for the equipment
when they had not even touched it. Jake, you
got what you deserved.

This Jake character is extremely noto¬
rious in this area for his business practices.
He’s ripped off plenty of bands in the name of
“hardcore” even going to such measures as
sabotaging shows at a rival club in Reading
named the Silo. What he does in this type of
situation is call up bands slated to play the
Silo and tells them the show has been can¬
celed or postponed. For proof talk to mem¬
bers of KILLING TIME or Philly's
BRICKHOUSE, among many others.

Another maneuver Jake tried to pull is
claiming the owners of the Silo traveled to
Philadelphia and tore down all the fliers he
posted around town. Funny thing is no fliers
for Unisound’s SHEER TEhROR show were
posted to being with! I know this for a fact, I
live in Philadelphia. Only on occasion will a
lone Unisound flier be nung in the Record
Exchange. I’ve never observed a Unisound
flier in record stores such as Third Street
Music, Rock’n'Roll Plus, Tower Records, let
alone posted around the streets.

In closing all I can say is try to avoid
Jake and his dirty dealing^Bands who wish to
play in the Reading area should stay clear of
Unisound and contact the people at the Silo.
Their number is (215)376-6711. As for shows
in Philly, nothing has been going on due to the
lack of an all-ages club that’s willing to book
hardcore shows. Until the next time.

2520 S. 20th St/ Phila, PA 19145

Dear MRR

I’m writing to say that I did finally receive a
copy of the “open up your fucking eyes”
compiliation video tape from Thrashers Di¬
gest. If you’ll remember, you did recently print
my letter complaining about not receiving a
copy of the video, which me and my band do
appear on (although I did mistakenly call it by
the wrong title).

Since T did receive a copy of the video, I’d
like you to print this letter so we can patch yup
this situation, since Thrashers Digest does
advertise in M.R.R. I want to retract my
statements about them being ripoffs. In fact,
I’d like to highly recommend that all of you
crazy punks & rockers order a copy of this
video tape immediately because it features
some killer footage of my band, BLOODY
MESS & THE SCABS, plus much more by

bands such as: DIET CHRIST, REDNECKS
IN PAIN, NO EMPATHY and lots more!!!
Send $12.50 to: Thrashers Digest/ 702 W.
Elm/Carbondale, IL 62901. Tell that Bloody
sent you. Please print this letter. It’s only fair.
Thanx! Take it sleazy,

Bloody Mess (& the Skabs)/ PO Box 9021/
Peoria, IL 61614

MRR and readers

I did a San Diego scene report (#87)
and before it got printed I had a change of
address. Anyone who ordered a record and
got their mail back, or who ordered the Bat
zine, here’s the new address: 7636 Caldy
Place/ San Diego, CA 92111. The band pic¬
tured in my scene report is Blind Justice.
They could also be reached at the address
above. I just want to get this cleared to avoid
confusion. Peace!

Rob/ Mulch Records

To MRR Readers who “want lots of mail,"

I have but one thing to say... The
Hardcore Mail Source is a fuckin’ scam! By
the time this letter is printed it will have been
5-6 months since I sent my $5 cash (no
checks or money orders accepted) to the PO
Box advertised in this very magazine in order
to have my name sent to 75 various people
who in turn would send me their free informa¬
tion, catalogs, flyers, etc. Well I have yet to
see anything in my mailbox except for the
occasional Esso Gas Coupon booklet - which
I highly doubt came from the Hardcore Mail
Source.

At first I was experiencing delusions of
grandeur at the thought of “having my mail¬
box packed with flyers and catalogs" - but
now I just sit and wonder where my $5 went.
Did I buy someone a nice cozy lunch from
McDonalds? Or perhaps a party pack of
Latex Ribbed Trojans? Well I guess I’ll never
know, but for now I suppose it will be enough
just to warn others of this horrendous injus¬
tice.

Always a devoted reader, The Innocent Vic¬
tim of the Hardcore “Fail" Source

Dear Mrr,

Thanks for running my article on Cana¬
dian Punk collectors items in your “Welcome
to the Scumpit" section of MR R 87. It would've
been nice, however, if you’d credited it to me
and not East Bay Eric!! Oh, well, these things
happen... So, just in case anyone cares, the
“Scumpit" on Canuck Punk 1977-80 was by
me, Dr. Weasel, and not E.B.Eric, OK?!

Stay Cool, Dr.Weasel - “What Now?" zine,
Kingston, Canada

Dear MRR,

FUCK SOCIAL DISTORTION! FUCK
SCCIAL DISTORTION! That doesn’t quite
express the absolute contempt that I (as well
as many of the folks who turned out and took
the slap in the face we shall refer to as the
$9.00 door price) feel for those richie bas¬
tards! My band (not in the literal sense, I’m
just the vocalist), The Jesters Of Chaos,
made the mistake of opening for them.

Before I begin, I need to make clear that
not all the blame for what happened that
fateful night falls solidly on the shoulders of
SOCIAL D., but their part in it was not a small
one.

Okay, to begin with they were late, but
shit happens, and thus we got no sound
check and waited around (as did the audi¬
ence) for probably about an hour.

Then we receive word that there’s spa¬
ghetti and garlic bread inside for the bands,
sound crew and anyone else involved with
the show (we found out later that Social D.
wouldn’t play unless spaghetti was
provided...it was in the contract.). Us four
shared a plate and when we returned for
seconds we were told that only the sound
people and the headliner could have some
and maybe we could have whatever was left
over. There was enough food there to feed a
small family and their relatives.

Then, we were told by the sound crew
to “get your shit inside or you’re off the bill.”
We get it all in there only to nave them scream
at us for bringing it inside and they order us to
get it off the stage and set up the drums
outside in the parking lot. After more waiting,
this time nessesarily waiting since the
EXGRETED REPUBLICANS were on first (a
damn good band I might add), it was our turn.
We weren’t allowed to use the “exclusive"
Social Distortion drum riser, even after we
offered to put their drums back after our set.
Their reply to that was “if you touch anything,
we’ll kick your asses and sue for damage."
The band didn’t say that, but their sound
crew/stormtroopers/thugs did. All those guys
were in excess of 200 lbs. each, probably
drun, had the attitudes that would put your
average nazi to shame, and were just hoping
for a fight (which is exactly what they got, but
that comes later...I’ve gotta hold your interest
somehow). Stagediving wasn’t allowed and
the sound crew was enforcing that rule on the
cramped stage (cramped due to the fact our
drumer had to put his kit in front of the Social
D. drum riser, leaving a whopping TWO
INCHES between the bass drum and a floor
monitor) by beating and removing anyone
who tried. Not to mention the beating that
many recieved OUTSIDE by those fascist
gorillas after being ejected. The straw that
broke the camel’s back came when two of
these cum guzzlers restrained this one kid.
One thug grabbed his hair and pinned his
arms and other spread his legs and repeat¬
edly punc he d him in the ballsim

The crowd responded to this with vol¬
leys of spit and "sucker” punches to those
shitheads. Along with a considerably louder
chant of “FUCK SOCIAL DISTORTION!" (it
began earlier once I told everyone about the
drum riser deal) as well as a chant of "FUCK
YOU!!" when they kicked us off the stage for
telling them to leave that kid alone. They
kicked me off first, leaving Ken (guitar), Tyler
(drums) and Theo (bass) up there to continue
on. The power was cut off to Theo and Ken,
leaving Tyler to lead the protest until he was
eventually shut down.

Even though we only played five songs,
we stole the show for obvious reasons, leav¬
ing the rock stars to play to a conserably more
sedentary crowd. They later refused to share
their beer with us on grounds that we were
"troublemakers with no respect for rules or
order,’’so is in the great punk rocktradition we
calmly and quietly relieved them of their re¬
maining stash of alcoholic beverages (except
for that cheap wine... yuck! ptoo! ptoo!) and
added some vitamin rich urine to the rest of
their precious spaghetti. I’m told that they
later indulged in it after their set. Bon
Appetite!..chumps.

AND NOW FOR THE FIGHT SCENE!
They claim that Ken’s girlfriend flicked a bottle
cap on to the mixer Board. I was standing
directly behind her and she did flick a bottle
cap which landed a good 30 feet from it, and

thus there was no reason for a TWO HUN¬
DRED POUND MALE TO GRAB A ONE
HUNDRED AND FIVE POUND FEMALE BY
THE NECK AND SOCK HER QUTTHF RACK
DOOR ill She fought back with several kicks
to his jewels. Ken got him with a full can of
beer to the face, fneo was in a one-sided
wrestling match with another. And I kicked
one upside his head and broke a bottle on
another one’s head (doing more damage to
myself than him, naturally). More of them
came out and just as we thought we were
doomed all the people drinking in the parking
lot came to our rescue. Then there was the
triumphant, but fashionably late arrival of the
Seattle Police Department.

Anyways Malcolm Tent is absolutely
right. DO NOT IN ANY WAY SUPPORT
SOCIAL DISTORTION OR THE ROCK STAR
MASTURBATION THEY REPRESENT!! As
musicians I think they’re very good, but they
have a lot to learn about being civilized hu¬
man beings and for that reason when I say
"GO TO HELL, SOCIAL DISTORTION!" I
wish I had the power to actually send them
there. And if there are any otner “attitude
bands" out there who are reading this and are
thinking aboutplaying in Seattle think again...
your bullshit won’t be tolerated and I can
pretty much guarantee, given the intelligent
and aware majority of the scene here, your
stay will be most unpleasant. What goes
around,comes around!

Spyder/ Jesters of Chaos/ Seattle, WA

Hi out there!

To everyone who ordered the BROTHER¬
HOOD 12": Please be a bit patient as the first
pressing is gone and the second one will take
about 1 to 1 1/2 months. Be sure that you get
your copy! The IMPACT UNIT 7” is gone and
it’s not sure yet if we will do a 3rd pressing.
Also, people who sent in checks, please, if
you want your record, send cash. The bank
takes 20 minutes and for every foreign check
and none of us are really into spending our
spare time in some bank. Sorry for that but I
hope you understand!

A short note on Dan O’ Mahoney: It's
pretty strange when someone talks big shit
about staying true to the ideals of hardcore
while releasing a record on a major label,
ripping off people with their own label etc... I
was in California last summer and met him at
some gig and as soon as I found out that it
was the mighty, intelligent and sincere" Mr.
Mahoney, I went over to him to ask whatever
the fuck happened to the money I sent to him
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Hello to everyone. First off, I want to
thank everyone who responded to my letter in
#86 regarding “politically correct censors in
the alternative scene. The number of positive
responses was overwhelming. I can't wait
until I start getting response from the other
letter I wrote. Anyway, the reason I'm writing
is to bitch, something I hate to do unless I
have to. This time the bitch session is along
a personal nature. It has to do with a number
of records and stuff I’ve ordered and not yet
recieved. I’ll just start by saying that there
may be several reasons why I didn't recieve
the stuff, like mail problems, etc., so I’m not
trying to accuse anybody of ripping me off.
Okay, here goes. Lance Hahn/AOK, $3 sent
for a Plaid Retina record. Gainsay 'zine
'Michigan) $4 sent for a tape comp, and zine.
John Mark (Maryland) $20 sent for a video,
plus a letter complaining, this was at least 6
months ago. No Reality records ($3 sent) for
a Crimpshine /G-Whiz 7". Well, overall that is
$30, which is a pretty large amount of cash to
lose for me. If you’re out of the records, how
about writing me a letter to tell me? Anyway,
all you folks mentioned, could you maybe
give me a reason as to why I haven’t recieved
this stuff. As I said before, you obviously
aren’t ripping me off (3 bucks doesn’t really
get you a spot on Wall Street, y’know?). And
people who I write to, could you maybe drop
me a line so I know you recieved my letter. As
anybody who’s written me knows, I answer all
my mail the day I get it. Thanx for your time,
bye.

David Coonce/1013 Erin Dr. A/Columbus, IN
47201

Dear Mr. Yohannan.

My band INSANITY PLEA was reviewed
by you in issue #87. After reading you review,

I know I had to write you. I want to thank you
for complimenting our sound, that make me
very happy. But I want to set the story straight
about a song titled “Can’t Wait Till My Period
Stops."

In your review, you stated that the song
“smacks of a double standard.” The point I
was trying to make when I wrote it was I am
just not into slutty girls. Don’t get me wrong,

I have plenty of friends that are girls — it’s just
that sluts make me sick. I can’t believe any¬
body can be so stupid, especially since it
could cost them their life.

The song was written from a male's
point of view because, you guessed it, I am a
male. I know that males can be sluts just as
easily as females, and a lot are, but if I sang
about both genders, I don’t believe it would be
as much from the heart. I hope this may give
any female singers inspiration to write a song
about slutty guys. I don’t think I could pull it off
as well. So if anyone does, please write me c/
o Leverage Records.

As for the chorus, I understand the
reaction you had to it. You simply misunder¬
stood and took it serious when I wrote it as
sarcasm. If you take another look at all the
lyrics as a whole, you’ll see that my brother
(who is also in the band) and I are very
sarcastic in our writing styles. When I called
you on the phone I explained the sarcasm,
which you replied by saying, “I still feel you

have a hatred towards women." If I put down
cholos who kill innocent people in drive-by
shootings, am I putting down the entire His¬
panic race? No, I am not. If I put down the
Ayatollah Khomeini, am I putting down all
Iranians? No, I am not. If I wrote a song
putting down white pride Nazi shitheads, I am
not putting down the entire white race. I know
the big rule of music is don’t listen to critics,
but that’s not true. You can’t (or I should say
I can’t) ignore it, especially when I am trying
to get a point across. I hope to see this letter
in your next issue.

Thank you very much,

John Oliveira/ 23842 Alicia Parkway #122/
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Dear John,

What may be apparent to you or people
that know you is not necessarily the case to
outsiders. On this, your first vinyl, you refer a
couple of times negatively towards women
(the only references to women at ail). If lis¬
teners get the "wrong" idea about you, it may
be because your attitudes are not very well
put (unclear art is your choice, and well-done
sarcasm is a fine art). Or it may be that you
really do have a hard streak towards women.
On the phone you bluntly said, "I'm not into
women," which only confirmed to me that
your "sarcasm" perhaps betrayed a deeper
animosity towards females.

Perhaps not, though (I don't know you),
and hope that my interpretation was incor¬
rect. Tim

Dear MRR:

Here’s a report from the federal me¬
dium-security prison at Ray Brook in the far
north of New York State:

The joint is at twice design capacity,
rooms designed for one now holding double
bunks - sometimes four bunks. Most of the
population is black, most of the rest Hispanic,
few whites (and most of them middle-aged),
a sizable block of Jamaicans.

It seems like the vast majority of new
commitments are drug cases, unlike the early
'80s, when bank robbery was most common,
followed by mail fraud. There are now about
60,000 federal prisoners, out of a million
prisoners nationwide, and Uncle Sam is
building new prisons as fast as they can- your
tax dollar at work.

Until November 1987, federal prison¬
ers could expect parole after 1 /3 to 1 /2 of their
sentence, but then parole was abolished. A
lot of these new guys are coming in here with
15 or 20 years for cocaine and no hope of
parole - that spells trouble. At the same time,
the warden keeps tightening up on living
conditions, leading to widespread predictions
of violent unrest coming.

Not much racial tension (relative to other
prisons) here, probably because there are so
few young whites. The food is lousy by
American standards - no vegetarian diets
are recognized -- but luxurious compared to
what most of the world’s people get to eat.
And the overcrowded cells seem spacious by
Indian standards.

Although anal sex activity is inevitable,
federal officials will not allow rubbers on
grounds. That would be "condoning homo¬
sexuality.” I call it murder by official policy, but
nobody out there cares.

No cassettes are allowed; TV is the big
pacifier, with 6 TV rooms per 200 men. The
only films shown on the compound are reli¬
gious movies. Guys "work" 71/2 hours a day,

starting at 11 cents an hour, but are idle most
of the time since there are too many prisoners
for too little work. Visitors are rare since we
are at least a day’s travel away from our
homes in New York City, Washington, Phila¬
delphia, Boston and some as far away as
California.

I saw the parole board (being under the
old law) in June and they gave me 6 months
for absconding from parole supervision in
'87. But my July 27 release date is meaning¬
less because you have to provide a residence
address in your parole district (mine is Man¬
hattan and the Bronx) and a job offer in order
to get paroled, and I have no place to live in
that district.

I may be able to get into a halfway
house in Brooklyn in December. Otherwise, I
“max out" without parole on Sept. 29, 1991.

Correspondence, zines and flyers are
welcome. Address: Robert Martin 09368-054/
PO Box 902/ Mohawk Unit/ Federal Correc¬
tional Institution/ Ray Brook, NY 12977.
Donny the Punk

Howdy,

Musing: a baby is a wonderful thing.
Mine is iust 2 months old and already has
changed me more than any other thing I have
ever done. Her perspective, has infected me;

I see what she sees (or try to). I have newborn
eyes. During my entire pregnancy I thought
long and hard about all the things I wanted to
show the baby, things I wanted to teach it.
Now that she’s here Pm beginning to think I’ll
be the one who really learns, watching her.
She’ll show me as much as I show her.

What really amazes me is her smile,
straight from the soul, consuming her entire
face. She wiggles and kicks and waves her
arms in pure smiling joy. This tiny creature,
her head as tender as an egg, weighing less
than my cat, and unable to hold her head up
— she will sit happily in her own shit for
hours... I have things in the back of my
refrigerator that are much older than her. Yet
already she knows she is a social creature.
She will smile at any face, whether it’s me
bending over her to change her diaper, a
cartoon taped to the wall, or a magazine
photo held up for her to see. If we all start out
the same way — so in love with the human
face—then how do we become so divided by
hate a few years down the line?

I see her innocent smiles and think
about Maximum RocknRoll. I have been in¬
troduced to some new ideas in this magazine
over the past few years, and a lot of them are
things I would want to expose her to when
she's older, things I would want her to think
about. I wish my parents had showed me
something so different and alternative when
I was a little younger.

But lately, reading the letters section, I
have been having real doubts about how
different or alternative these ideas really are.
So much of what I’ve been reading lately
seems to consist largely of one punk rocK
faction slagging off another, and I feel a little
disillusioned... Has anyone learned anything
at all 9 Why do so many of these letter writers
feel compelled to identify themselves by some
stupid fucking label in their first three sen¬
tences? "Hi, Maximum Rock-n-Roll, I’m a (fill
in the blank with some easy, pre-sorted la¬
bel)"

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a propo¬
nent of homogenized humanity. Our differ¬
ences make us all unique. And no matter
what we identify most closely with, whether it

be Rastafarian, redneck, heavy-metal,
straight-edge, homosexuals, heterosexuals,
vegetarianism, scumcore, skinhead, rapper,
death-rocker, dance-clubber, athlete, book¬
worm, feminist, activist, environmentalist,
blah, blah, blah, if we all are using our brains
in connection with what we believe in, there’s
no problem. But if a person starts to buy into
the prevalent mentality that one group of
people, religion, ideology, mode of dress or
attitude is it, is everything, then we’re all back
in high school again with the cliques.

I think that nigh school mentality is alive
and thriving in the scene, along with the
adolescent tendency to see everything in
black and white and right and wrong. Maybe
alternative is not as alternative as everyone
who is involved in it wants to think. Though
there are many intelligent, creative and inde¬
pendent people involved, there is also a large
constituency of sheep fine-tuning their atti¬
tudes, perfecting their wardrobes and playing
follow-the-leader. It’s like “alternative con¬
formity.’’ I suspect that some of the letter-
writers who furiously attack Mykel Board and
Ben Weasel are missing the point of columns
that challenge and attack punk icons and
punk ideals, making people at least reflect on
their assumptions. I think your ideology should
not be your identity; rather it’s your walking
stick... helps you find your way in afucked-up
world. And if you discount and dismiss other
people’s ideas you can become a mental
cripple, stiffening up like something old and
unused. (A smart man said this: “I reinvent
myself every day.’’) An open mind is far from
an effortless thing, but if you’re not evolving
you’re becoming extinct (which is something
I sometimes wonder is happening to the
scene). Unity isn’t conformity — unity means
finding the common element among all your
diversity, and caring about people as people
even if you don’t think they are politically or
ideologically “correct."

If you still don’t understand what I'm
trying to say, then let me throw just one
example at you. If I read one more fucking
letter like this, I will scream: “I’m a straight¬
edge guy sick and tired of hearing everyone
say how all we straight-edgers are sexist.
We’re not sexist, we would accept any girl
who ..." etc. (Not meaning to pick on straight-
edgers here; insert any label you like in the
above example.) The vital element here are
the words we... they... everyone... Do you get
the idea? What is all this “WE" shit anyway??
What happened to “I”?? “I personally speak¬
ing for myself only believe??"

Any correspondence, positive or
negative, welcome: Tina Bloom/ 3914
Harrison, 2nd Floor/ KC, MO 64110.

P.S. The letterfrom "just another nigger"
made me sad. I sincerely hope that the per¬
son who wrote that letter will see that there is
a lot of intolerance in the scene in general,
whether it’s towards other people’s beliefs or
other people’s skin color. Someone like
yourself, with a different background from the
suburban white punks you encountered, has
things to teach this stagnating social move¬
ment. But of course you can’t teach a thing to
people who are too fucking stupid to listen.

re: Rock Against Racism

Ottowa recently hosted a "3 day
extraveganza" Rock Against Racism. All in
all, as one of the organizer, I think the show
went relatively well. Although at first there
were problems, these were overcome as we
went along and things started to rock.

I would like to thank all those who in¬
volved and help make the show a success.
This includes the following bands: Nausea,
Oi Polloi, One Blood., Winter, Born Against,
Citezens Arrest, Insurgence, Kingpin, 4 Storey
Forehead, Suburban Underground, Mucf,
Phleg Camp, Grave Concern, Furnace Face,
Skatterbrains, Bliss, Rise, Friens of Music,
Random Killing, The Executives, SkaFace,
Whirleygigs, and a special thanx to the Trapt
and BlacK Triangle for the use of their
equipment, and of course all the bands who
came in from out of town to play our humble
litttle show.

And last but not least, the people who
helped, and stopped me from having a ner¬
vous breakidown: Lara and the Kitchen Crew,
The soundguys,Tom and the rest of the se¬
curity, Liam for looking afterthe stage, Brian
and valeriee from NY, the community center
staff and the Ottowa police force for not
closing us, and everyone who helped out at
all.

My admiration and thanx go out to all
those who made an effort to get up here to
Ottowa, or Canada to see the show, and I
hope to see you at next years Rock Against
Racism ’91,. It promises to be even better!
So, make plans to be here again. Same time
next year, Aug 3-6, probably a different place,
better sound, more organized and possibly
as much fun ( !!)

If you want more information on next
years show, you can write to: Ottowa Area
SHARP Crew/PO Box 38036/c/o Rideayview
Postal Outlet/ Ottowa, Ontario /K2C 3Y7
Canada

As well, if you are looking for albums and
such of bands that played this years show,
write to me and I can let you know where they
can be reached.-Rob.

P.S. Afterthe recent success of the Rock
Againt Racism 1990 in Ottowa, we have
decided to make it an annual event, during
the weekend of August 3-5, in Ottowa, Ontario,
Canada.

We'are notifying labels and promaters in
the event that they are aware of a band who
is either interested in coming up forthe show
or who will be on tour in the area at the time.
As this is purely a non-profit benefit show, all
we can afford to pay is the cost of gas ex¬
penses. We can howevere, also offer a place
to stay, food and laundry as well as a table at
the show for merchandise. All responses for
information can be sent to: Ottowa SHARP
Promotions/c/o Rideauview Postal Outlet/PO
Box 38036/Ottowa, Ontario Canada. Please
leave information concerning further contact.

Dear Mykel Board,

I read yourthoughts on Japanese whale¬
hunting in the August issue. I’m not a militant
environmentalist or save-the-whales activist,
but I just found your misguided attempts at
"reasoning out a moral problem here" very
amusing. You spouted out verbal diarrhea
that you obviously mistook for intellectual
discourse, and in the meantime you missed
the point entirely. Whale hunting iscondemned
because the whales are under the threat of
extinction. When lions kill their prey, since the
natural cycle of the habitat they dwell in keeps
everything together and the feeding of lions
on their prey is just a part of that cycle.
However, Japanese whale-hunters and Afri¬
can ivory traders do disrupt this cycle and
cause the animals to become endangered
with extinction.

Mykel Board babbles on about the food

chain, the close evolutionary relations of dif¬
ferent species and efficiency, but his pseudo¬
intellectual babblings miss the point entirely
and I think it's really funny that he should
demonstrate howto conduct a moral debate.
However, I found his article very entertaining
to read, especially when he ''proves" that
vegetarianism is racism andthat animal rights
is just another form of imperialism. Before I
give you the impression I have no sense of
humor, I want to add that I realize Mykel
Board isn't completely serious about what he
writes, and that he probably intended to make
the rather unique concept of "ecology is im¬
perialism." In any case, it's entertaining and
humorous reading, so keep up the good
work!

John Lee/ Box 4571/ Wesleyan Station/
Middletown, CT 06457

Dear MRR readers,

In 1966, President L.B. Johnson signed
into effect the “Freedom of Information “ Act.
This was designed to free up all kinds of
Gov’t, info, especially on you. To get Big
Brothers file on you, you need to: Supply the
FBI with a set of your fingerprints, which can
be gotten at some official fingerprinters (yel¬
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#1973-524-273. Send fingerprints along with
birthdate and social security number, sign
your name, and enclose $5.00 check/ M.O.
(nothin’s free kids) payable to the FBI , and
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with a legitimate reason- in which case they
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There are nine legal reasons (ranging
from National Security to Patent Applica¬
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your file all together. Goodbye, fellow
Amerikans, I wish you the best of luck! Safety
First, Eric Thibodeau F- Division/ USS Mis¬
souri/ FPO San Francisco, CA 96689-1120

MRR,

I’ve liked Ben Weasel’s writing eversince
I saw his letter in the Nov. '87 MRR. Naturally,

I was pleased to see that he’s joined the ranks
of Livermore Guskin, Board, and th e others
on the editorial pages. Admittedly, his early
columns pissed off just about everyone (myself
included), and, oh yeah he does contradict
himself quite a bit, but he possesesa quality
that many of your columnists lack. Ben
Weasel undeniably has personality, and like
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Not to horn in on another columnist's
territory, it's time for me to tell you all about
my summer vacation.

Six weeks in Canada, spread out be¬
tween the far west port of Tofino on
Vancouver Island and venturing no further
east than the Winnipeg Folk Festival, where
I witnessed and participated in a heart¬
warmingcoming together of musicians from
many different backgrounds and nationali¬
ties.

But that's a subject for another time.
That always strikes me about spending time
in Canada is the difference in the news.
Although I don't take newspapers and tv
and raaio news reports that seriously, I like
to follow them and find quite a difference
between the two countries, mostly because
they tend to ignore each other. You don't
read that much about Canada here, and up
north the U.S. gets similar treatment although
a few minutes nere and there of George Bush
stroking his dong on a golf course or pre¬
tending to fish is impossible to avoid.

For those unlucky enough to be stuck
in the USA all summer, what follows is a
summary of some of the key issues covered
in the mass media as well as discussed by
people 1 talked to over the time in Canada.

We traveled with almost manic inten¬
sity via Seattle and Vancouver out to
Vancouver Island and the lovely area of
Tofino. A fan and friend of mine had recently
moved out there from Victoria, the largest
city on the island. He had joined back up
with his brother, a fisherman, and was now
seeing what it was like to make a living from
the ocean — as opposed to his previous job,
selling records.

On our first get together the fisherman
brother immediately brought up one of the
hot local issues — the Vietnamese and
Cambodian immigrants.

"See that boat out there?" he said,
pointing at the awesome horizon that was
often dotted with leaping whales. "Viet
Cong!"

This was just the beginning of a litany
about the unfairness of it all, how Canadians
had worked all their life to try to get ahead,
then here come these slant-eyed foreigners
who eligible for all kinds of government
relief, free boats and so forth. He accused
them of wiping out local fishermen by
overdoing — what the Texans in the same
situation called "fishin' too hard." We lis¬
tened politely, afraid of what effect an intense
political argument might have on a new
friendship with what otherwise seemed like
a wonderful, warm, fun-loving guy.

Later we met an old Shockabilly fan
who basically lives on his boat. He's a diver

• Japanese sushi companies
lumbia is apparently where the Japanese arc
looking now for various food items since
much of their own waters have been pol-

luted beyond help, by mindless industrial
expansion.)

He said that our fisherman friend's
pinion about the Vietnamese was not the
revalent feeling in the community, which I
ope is also the case in the United States. I
now I'm not the only American who feels
terrible about Vietnam and wants to extend
helping hand. In fact, when a drunken
ietnam vet started picking on a Vietnamese
uy in a line at a Mexican food street stand on
hot summer night in Los Angeles, 1 was
pleasantly surprised at how many people
walking by quickly rushed to the Vietnam¬
ese man's defense—and not a sin; *
sided with the American.

Some pf the Vietnamese fishermen that
came to this area did get involved with shady
bigfishingoperationsthatwouldarriveeariy
in the morning at a beach that in the past
might have been worked slowly by one fish¬
erman and his family, who might have picked
up only the larger shellfish and kept the
overall ecology of the beach in good shape.
These larger operations would snow up with
dozens or men who would pick the area
clean, meaning no income for the locals but
worse, a beach that would take years to
recover the intricate life support systems
needed to keep it stocked with seafood.

We ended up agreeing that it was the
methodspeopleused, and not their race and
nationality that was the point, And although
I never said it to his face, I think iny fisher¬
man friend should consider what it s like to
have a load of napalm dumped on you and
perhaps your family executed in front ofyou
and perhaps figure that into his balance sheet
of hardships endured by Canadians vis-a-
vis Vietnamese.

Another interesting thing the diver
showed me was a large-scale, detailed ocean
map of a small section of the area he ex¬
plores, from which he was able to show me
the incredible unfairness of the land claims
allotted to the native inhabitants of the land.
If you imagine a piece of paper the size of a

Indian land. .

This subject came up when we saw a
Catholic detoxification center for Indians sit¬
ting ahead on shore in a little area where we
had become becalmed. It was two days be¬
fore salmon season was officially to start, a
time of intense activity for the natives, be¬
cause they are given a grace period to catch
fish for their families before the rest of the
fishermen are allowed to start. A good day of
salmon fishing can be worth up to $10,000,
and lot of the inhabitants around here only
make money for a few weeks a year. The rest
of the time they spend running up their!

ngthe year in order to survive.

The Indians in this area were among
he last tobe subdued by the whiteman, and
here are still strong pockets of resistance as
veil as unexplored areas where for all we
new they might still be in charge* As the
summer jvent on we learned that Indian i
esistance is live and well throughout I
Canada. * ? • -r^ " :

One more subject of interest before we
oveontothelandlockedwestwastheCana-
iian and U.S. coast guards, who obviously
re a heavy presence in this alrea. The Cana-
ians saw the Americans as real bastard s and

told us one story about a disputed section of
water on the border and an unlucky soul
who was caught inside it. A1 though his charts
and records will eventually prove he was
still in maple leaf country, tne U.S. Coast
Guard were sure he'd ventured into the
United States of Quayle and seized his boat.
This was the same boat he was planning to
sell to get a newer boat, and now while the
matter is in the courts the guy is out of luck
and work.

'The Canadian Coast Guard is more
mellow," we were told. "When they come on
board and ask you for dope, it means they
want to smoke it with you."

Upon arriving in Calgary we found the
hot topic to be not the War on Drugs, but a
war on beef launched by the Canadian
country singer k.d. lang. This was worth a
few news stories everyday, it seemed. First
the confirmed vegetarian fang had the nerve
to make an ad saying "Beef stinks!" She went
on to describe how being from cattle country
herself, Alberta, she knows what went into
making those filet mignon steaks, and if you
knew too, well then you'd never touch the
stuff.

Country stations in enlightened parts
of the world such as Kansas and Nebraska
went crazy, refusing to play her records and
making many furious announcementsabout
their decision. I wondered what was going
on, being an avid C&W listener and having
never heard a single k.d. lang song on any
country radio station in America — unfor¬
tunately.

Tne reaction even spread to her home
town, where vandals painted "FAT MEAT
DYKE" over the "Home of k.d. lang" sign
that had been put up recently by the mayor.

Hotshots such as Paul McC.artncy came
to k.d. lang's defense. Editorial writers gave
their opinions. Like any "hot" story, it was
everywhere you looked. As usual, I was
immediately suspicious of the entire thing.
And jealous.

Despite how much I mouth off about a
variety of subjects, nobody ever pays this
much attention.

It was all a background to the real big
story of the day, the Meech Lake Accord.
How many Americans realize that Canada is
on the verge of falling apart completely, that
you might need a passport to go from Alberta
to British Columbia, that Quebec is closer
than ever to achieving its long-desired in¬
dependence, and that the Canadian Indians
arc seizing the opportunity toget back what
has been taken from them? It was all un¬
raveling while we were in Canada.

We heard from a journalist friend how
Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
(known as Lyin Bologna up here) had his 3-
year-old son call the premier of Newfound¬
land and beg him "not to break up Canada,"
a story that as far as I know has gone unre¬
ported. (You read it here first.) Despite this,
Newfoundland refused to ratifv the accord
which would have extended the previous
Canadian constitution.

Manitoba followed suit, the decisive
vote being cast by an Indian.

"It is like a a ream," a Quebec musician
friend of mine told me of the possibility of
independence for his province.

A Manitoba woman who drove us to
thcairport had a different view. "Wc'rcabout
to lose one of our most beautiful provinces,"
she complained.

This bothered me. Why would we
"lose" Quebec if it was independent? Docs

she expect the border to be closed, like Alba¬
nia or something? Is something not beautiful
anymore because we can't own it?

As the days rolled on, the Indian in¬
volvement in the entire affair overshadowed
everything else and eventually took on a life
of its own due to a horrifying and ludicrous
situation in Quebec, which has still not been
resolved (and from where I am sitting now in
North Carolina I'm receiving no news cov¬
erage).

A disputed area of Mohawk land was
lusted afterby the mayor of the town of Oka,
about 10 miles from Montreal, for use as a
golf course. The Mohawks said no way, it
was their land, it was holy land, it was not
going to be used for a golf course. It came to
a head one day when trie mayor sent heavily
armed cops in to take the land away. The
wind — nature will inevitably side with the
Indians, I believe—blew the tear gas back at
the cops, and one fuzz was shot in the face by
an Indian, who later died.

This produced the headline of they
at least in Canada: COP DIED FOR GC
COURSE.

All the various Indian protests going
on in Canada seemed to merge over the
following week: road blockades to pass out
information, sit-ins in national park camp¬
grounds, a national tribal meeting over the
Quebec situation, demanding the presence
of Amnesty International or the United Na¬
tions to settle the problems.

In the meantime the proud white man
continued his traditions, some of them
burning Indians in effigy in Oka, not out of
disagreement with the central issue, but out
of annoyance, because the various police
blockades are creating havoc with the com¬
mute into their high-paying jobs in Montreal.

Anyway, Pm back home now and
wonder what the hell is going on up there.
It's no surprise that lotsa news about Indian
uprisings isn't finding its way into our mass
media — after all, we wouldn't want to give
those folks on our reservations any ideas,
would we? Did I miss anything in the States?
Let me know.

ear,

OLF

The concept of intelligence was invented
by a bunch of guys who just wanted to prove
how smart they were.

—Mykel Board , Quote A

MESSAGE ONE: It was a sadder sight
than a sexy lesbian. Psychotronic Magazine
reports a speeding Parisian car killed Stiv
Bators, singer of history's best punk band. I
saw THE DEAD BOYS dozens of times. My
stage shtick only paley imitates that God.
Sign, the first major dent in a so-far pretty
good decade. As the Japanese say too often.
Don't you think so?"

MESSAGE TWO: It was funnier than a
Klansman with a yellow-stained sheet. Left¬
ies call Ace Back words a racist because he

than
'room

v-ou vv uiuj a must uuuiu:

says Negroes have longer pcniscs
Whites. Anyone who's shared a locker r

with a colored guy [Ora bed! -7T ] knows this
is true. Stating tnis truth is racism. Once I
heard a localliberal try to explain Black
penises,

'They just start out bigger, " he said,
"but they gam less with erection than white
penises."

From what I've seen, they'd have to
loose an inch or two to even things out.

You bet it's funny. As funny as a recent
MRR report that used "African American"
more than 30 times, no variation. One word
from Jesse and the liberals scramble for their
White Out, changing their computer macros
to the term of the day.

"Yawsah! Yessir Massa Jackson!
Whatever you say. Sir"

Most hilarious: people of color is a fine
term, while colored people is racist. Imagine
trying to teach English!

back to penises. Being called a racist
for saying black penises are larger than white
ones is like being called a racist because you
say black skins are darker than white ones.
You bet your jockstrap it's funny. What's
behind it is not. That behindness is the evil
notion that in order to have equality, we
must have sameness. Any variation es¬
pecially variation that divides itself along
racial or cultural lines—has to be explained
away or suppressed. I wrote about black
street crime last month. Letters came. "It's
economics," they said, "not race that makes
muggers." Let's look at that argument.

were in Japan there are plenty of poor
folks. Bums ana loonies sleep on the sub¬
ways. In summer, the shave-needing ones
take up all the park benches. Everybody isn't
rich, despite Mr. Sony and the Toyota Clan.
The Koreans, brought over by the Japanese
as slave laborers, have fewer rights than any
American black. Even after living here for
three generations, they're fingerprinted and
registered as aliens. If they're arrested, they
can be deported to Korea, even though
they've never set foot outside of Japan.

Japan has veiy little crime. A single
murder makes headlines for weeks! People
walk the streets with cash-filled wallets as
thick as my ankle. They leave cars parked
with the doors open and the keys in the
ignition. They find them there when they get
back. Why?

_ / Liberals don't want you to ask. They're
afraid you might come up with an answer
that says the difference is race. Asking the
question could lead to racism, they say. They
shout down and shut up anyone who asks
that question or others like it. (For example.
Could intelligence be race-linked, the same
way skin color is?") Rational inquiry is out

raasts. They give you their answers.

Their racism spreads.

Well, buckaroos, now I'm asking.
Maybe we can see other answers. Both Kore-

iow. Thefr P babies both pop with blue l?utt
spots that vanish by the age of one. The same
values of education, literacy and work root
hemselves in both cultures. Holding up that
•ultural tree is the fear of shamed of losing
face ^ if anyone finds, out you've done
something bad, *4* */./■'-

^.^Negroes, onthe other hand, Umgffiy
different from others in their society. Most

an'lnaw £>vpn thhov u/anf fa TKoirtienillir

mite folks. They entered this country as
laves from an unindustrialized culture that
alued strength, quickwits antf agility, They

entered with no concept of reading and writ¬
ing- „

Poverty, strength, quick wits, illiteracy
—without the restraint of shame—a natural

physical
they did.

ovum for the sperm of theft and
violence to take hold. Take hold they
The "classy" white culture said big cars and
fancy clothes were cool. White culture be¬
stowed its status symbols on people who
could not afford to purchase those symbols.
Those people's creativity, strength and agil¬
ity taught them other ways of getting them.

Crime developed into part of the cul¬
ture. In some places, it became as normal to
sav "my dad's a thief" as in others "my dad's
a doctor." Mugging, robbery and sometimes
murder are jobs. They're a way of getting
what you want, whether that means daily
bread or new CD players. They're not "ra¬
cial" any more than flamenco dancing is
"racial. They're not economic either. At
least they 7 re no more economic than a blaster
from The Wiz. They're cultural, just like rap
music and the blues.

Now, let's look at the idea of race and
intelligence. Lefties quake so much at this
question that they've left the answers to the
Hitlers and Elijah Mohammads of the the
world. Anyone who attempts to discuss it in
any way except to dismiss it is branded a
racist and often refused the right to speak.
Sometimes there is violence.

Since I'm in Japan, safely away from
the irrational wrath of the spike-haired. I'll
ask it. Could it be that intelligence is race-
linked, like skin color or penis length?

In order to answer, let's look at what
intelligence is in the first place. It is whatever
intelligence tests measure [INSERT QUOTE
A HERE], in other words, a completely arbi¬
trary set of abilities, as closely related to
smarts as my hemorrhoids are to the sex life
of Tasmanian termites.

IQ tests show a bunch of shapes repre¬
senting paper with folds. You've got to tell
what these papers look like foldeaup. Both
me and Albert Einstein flunk this test. We're
lucky if we get one out of ten. We're both
dyslexics. We get right and left, up and down,
mixed up. Anyone who's ever gotten a letter
from me knows ho w bad my hand writing is.

I can't get the letters straight. Asking me to
fold something in my mind is like asking a
blind person to play baseball. (Of course,
any blind team could beat this year's Yan¬
kees, but that's another column.)

Does that mean Albert Einstein and I
are not "intelligent?" More likely it means
that the guy who invented this test was very
good at folding shapes. The ability to add
and subtract numbers in your head; the abil¬
ity to know how many cows can cross a river

components t_

gence. Mathematical, spatial, verbal ability
:ney're called. They don't test aural ability,
creativity, intuition and a whole bunch of
other stuff.

Given this useless definition, it may
well be that intelligence or some piece of it
has a relation to race. If certain brain chemi¬
cals contribute to functions then some races
may have them in combinations different
from others. I t's just as likely that Caucasians
are biologically inferior to colored folks in
the areas we call "creativity," "agility" and
spontaneity."

Mv
prenataf

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unscientific guess: it's not race, but
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some brain chemicals in larger quantities
thanothers. Pork, meatloaf anacollard greens
provide the protein and iron necessary for
creativity and agility. A (male) friend of mine
does live sex shows — eight a day. In order
to keep up keeping it up he gobbles six
pounds of raw ground beef a day. You need
meat protein for that kind of power.

White folks, on the other hand, eat tofu
and tuna salad — much like the Japanese.
They produce puny wimps who can add,
subtract and fold paper shapes. Tofu over¬
dosing, however, causes a lack of creativity,
spontaneity, humor and other right-brain
functions.

I have no evidence to back up this
nutritional theory. I t's just another lame idea.
They 7 re a yen a dozen. If some scientist wants
to get Ford Foundation bucks to test it out,
that's fine with me. I don't think it's impor¬
tant. As a matter of fact, the most important
questions is: Does it matter? The answer is
NO.

Everyone's got some mix of things s/
he can or can't do. Maybe it comes from
nutrition. Maybe it comes from genes. Maybe
it comes from the moon. People have the
right to use good stuff and not oe penalized
for the bad—no matter where it comes from.
It's the job of all us moral folks to protect
those rights. Even if Negroes were biologi¬
cally less "intelligent* than Whites, it
wouldn't change anything. See what hap¬
pens if we let the questions be asked? The
danger dissolves. Instead of running from
and fearing the answers we can simply say,
"Who cares?"

We get an added benefit from having
this mix of abilities and faults. We make up
for each other. Instead of having a general
sameness, we have two hundred million
hills and valleys that fit nicely one into the
other. They create something completely new
in the world. Something called AMERICA.

That brings me ^MESSAGE THREE:
It gets me angrier than finding X-lax in the
chocolate puading. Both the lefties and the
righties agree on this one, so you know it's
wrong. You expect this it's-for-their-own-
good stupidity from lunkhead liberals. When
patriots chirp in—yeegads! I'm talking about
this "official language" whaleshit. Some
states a
that lan

Dr. Bett ieneim, suppo
likeCalifornia'sS.I.Hayakawa, feel the same.

The libs say it helps integrate people
into society. They'll have more freedom and
mobility it they use English rather than be¬
ing confined to a ghetto, if they don't.

Little Father Joe Stalin sold that crap to
the Ruskies before he packed them off to
Siberia. "It's good for you. It'll make you
better Russians." Yo! If they want to Jive
someplace else they'll learn English (or Rus¬
sian). If not, leave them alone!

The so-called patriots annoy me even
more. These whining simps claim to love
America. Secretly they're afraid we're a na¬
tion of wussies. They think a few no
comprendes will bring the sky down. They're
so scared of walking into someplace and not
being understood, they want tne law to tell
everyone to talk the same way they do.

America became strong by patching
together different kinds of people. American
culture is the world's greatest because it is
every culture. Do these ninnies think America
is weaker than a where's-that? country like
Papua, New Guinea. There, they get along
fine with 700 languages. Count 'em. English

America's Civil War wasn't an ethnic
war. It was an economic war. Look at Canada
and the Soviet Union. That's what happens
when different cultures can't live together—
where one tries to dominate the others.
America is different. It's better. Since the
1700s people have lived in New York and
other large American cities and never learned
English. When folks want to move around
then they learn English—just like I'm learn-
ing Japanese. I can t feel sony for the lame-o
dork just in to Miami from Des Moines who
is stymied by his lack of Spanish. Go to
Miami? Speak Spanish or die! Or at least go
back to Iowa.

America's strength is jfchis diversity. It
makes sense that liberals want to dilute this
strength. It doesn't make sense that patriots
want to do the same.

MESSAGE FOUR: No one deserves to
be raped. It's a nasty assault, completely
immoral. But, if you assume that tnere're
going to be a specific number of rapes any¬
way, then, like an out-of-control Parisian
car, it should hit Gloria Steinem rather than
Stiv Bators. I'm not advocating more rape,
but rather redistribution.

It isn't the anti-porn feminists, how¬
ever, who deserve it. That would only com
firm their opinions. Neither is it the woman
who walks with a jiggle or wears blouses cut
deep as the Grand Canyon. Women should
be encouraged to strut tneir stuff rather than
hide it behind straight lace. Rather, it's a very
special kind pf woman. Let me give you an
example: 7 'U - . - : .7- ■

One of the gals I work with is a prim
Brit, She looks like she popped from mom in
dorky office clothes. She's tall and thin and

stead she chooses to look English. The other
day, I overheard her speaking with an
American.

"I don't understand this pornography,"
she says. "The real thing is so muen better.
How can you get enjoyment from a maga¬
zine?

You can't feel the..."

7; I butt jn. "Fuck me," I say. v
# She turns to face me. ^

"Fuck me," I repeat, "You said how
much better the real thing is. Put yourpussy
where my mouth is, I'll pay you 1500 yen
(about $8), the same as I pay for a porno mag.

It costs half that tp rent a video, fll give you
thp difference." ?■ 77 7

"I was being theoretical/' says the
teacher. "I don't buy theoretical magazines
or watch theoretical videos." I say, *1 don't
jerk off with a theoretical hand either."

"I wasn't offering myself," she says; "I
was just saying that, given the choice,.##
"Choice shmoice," I tell her."You think
I have the choice to screw a half a dozen sex
bombs whenever l want? You want me to be

I leer at her, leaning forward against the
table in front of me., 7 - -7

She backs away, twisting her ankle

-f I \j \ JET* LsH.Jill

I lit 10 11 4*4 v n

0' Idofl't remember wjjat sbe Mwafter
hat. That matters as littl? as the question of
r egfo intelligence. Yon get the picture. If
imeone's gonna be raped, it's these the-

reality-is-so-much-bcttcr types that deserve
it a dozen times over any Jody Foster look-
what-a-scxpot-I-am. Don't you think so?
ENDNOTES:

1. Further on the abortion front, I just
learned that Margaret Sanger, the founder of
Planned Parenthood, wrote, "More children
from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the
chief issue of birth control." Hmm, sounds
like you-know-who. If you don't, look at the
April 1933 issue of Ms. Sanger's BIRTH
CONTROL REVIEW. There's an article by
Professor Rudin, supporting "eugenic steril¬
ization." He says the Nazis were "proceed¬
ing toward a policy that will be in accord
with the best thought of eugenicists in all
civilized countries." Every year Planned
Parenthood still presents the Margaret Sanger
award. Maybe you could win one.

2. Is George Bush going to appoint
another Commie to the Supreme Court? It
may not matter. Recently that bunch of reds
ruled that it's okay to outlaw corporations
from "spending general funds for indepen¬
dent expressions of opinions about political
candidates." The government is allowed to
tell you that smoking is bad, but the cigarette
companies aren't allowed to tell you the
government is bad. Exempted from these
laws, of course, are the media. So who's
gonna complain? In this case, six of the nine
justices — including the most liberal and
most conservative — agreed. Down deep,
liberals are just conservatives who've been
to college. Like I've been saying for years.

3. Sorry about being way behind in my
letter writing. My sister's been visiting. I've
been working a lot. It's almost vacation time.
Please hang on—especially my pals in BUTT
and THE APOSTLES, as well as my jail cor¬
respondents. Letters ARE coming, but it'll
take a while. If I can't write, next best thing is
apologizing. Don't you think so?

When 1 first started going to hardcore
shows everyone would stare at my clothes
and call me a poser. When I formed my band
they laughed at us and said we sucked.
When we started playing shows they would
stand in front of the stage sieg-heiiing and
screaming Communist at us. When we re¬
leased our first record they laughed and said
no one would buy it. When we went on tour
they said we'd never get out of New Jersey.
When no one would let us play their clubs,
we put on our own shows. They still
screamed, "You suck" and tore out the
bathrooms. When we got a record deal they
all screamed "Sell OUTS"...

Excerpts from the soon to be published book
Who Killed P.E.D.?"

When I first got into the sinister world of
punk rock 1 suffered from a common disor¬
der that a lot of younger types suffer called
"Blind Idealism/' Tha't is not to say that I am
a fatalist or a complete cynic now, only that
I no longer draw CRASS signs on my jeans.
Blind localism" validates any action on the

pretext that the ends always justify the means
as long as something good is happening.
Unfortunately I no longer view the world as
being Black/White, which means that I must
look into both sides of an issue before I make
a judgment. I'll give an example of how this
works in case you're not following me. In the
past I would look at various people and
based on the way they looked I would judge
their life. When I saw a well-dressed man
wearing a suit, I assumed him to be a busi¬
nessman and hence responsible for all the
miseiy in the world. The fact that I was
walking down the street wearing purple
eyeliner and a kilt with boots haa nothing
whatsoever to do with my hatred of things
not PUNK.

As I got older my dress habits changed
as did my view of humanity. I found myself
forming friendships with people who three
years previous I would have literally spit on.
1 didm t sell out, I just opened my mind and
all sorts of good and bad things crawled in.
In the same respect I always thought that it

gettmg

Because sometimes things seem so morally
Black and White it becomes easy to overlook
a lot of factors. Take for example Club Pro¬
moters.

Randy (Ellis) Now is a big time East
Coast promoter. It is thought by some that he
charges too much to get into shows and has
too many brutal security guards. Randy, I
am sure, will tell you he nas to charge so
much because the bands ask for huge guar¬
antees and he says he has a overhead of
about $1,200 a show just to pay everyone.
But if it's such a pain in the butt why does he
do it? Docs Randy NOW really want to see
the Circle Jerks for what must be his 100th
time? No, the kids do, and they're willing to
pay $10 to see them, in fact they even want to
pay $15 for a t-shirt to show the world that
they just paid $10 to see the Circle Jerks. As
a band member I want to open up for the CJs
because I know at least 500 kids will be
forced to watch me make my noise because
they can't escape. The fact that Randy only
pays me $50 for this honor is nothing com¬
pared to the fact that I have just reached a
large audience who couldn't give a fuck
about me.

Reread the last paragraph and every¬
where it says Circle Jerks cross it out and
insert The Exploited. An analogy becomes
reality. Because yes, I was privileged enough
to play with Wattie and mates before a crowd
of predominantly right-wing Skinheads.
Because mv idealism couldn't accept being
called a "Kike" or a "Fag-Communist" in¬
stead of keeping my mouth shut I yelled
back at the crowd — you must understand 1
was younger then and idealistic. I almost
started a riot at this huge club and was
thanked by being told I would never play
again. Boo Hoo Hoo. What this episode
taught me was simple. Keep your mouth
shut and you'll go far. Unfortunately 1 have
a big mouth that I can only be silenced by
food or another set of warm lips pressed
close to mine.

To make a rather long story short, I
decided to put on my own snows/lf anyone
has ever tried to tour the East Coast they
know how hard it is to get shows in or near
to New York. It was roughly a trial and error
process with many halls trashed and a few
riots here and there. But it was fucking fun
most of the time cause the bands were not

only great but were friends to boot. The
auaience was comprised for the most part of
friends and friends of friends, not unlike
what takes place at most small level shows.
But the bigger these shows got, the more
idiotic shit would take place. For example a
typical evening would consist of fellow pro¬
moter Paul Decolator ducking large idiots
with knives who for whatever reasons
wanted to carve a bit of his Italian hide to
ake home with them, and both of us running
iround tiying to get bands on and off the
stage, ana friends to cough up the $5 so \ve
could pay 76% Uncertain enough money to
get bhek to Connecticut ox 7 Seconds enough
to eat at Denny's. These are experiences not
unknown to most small-time promoters. And
you know what the payback is? Our bands

buy a six pack and maybe a pizza. Whoopee!

The point is that we enjoyed ourselves
and exposed a lot of people to new and
interesting music, which for the most part
they didn't appreciate. Our independent
promotion days culminated with a full-scale
riot involving several hundred punks and
skins vs. 20 drunken Knights of Columbus
members, five police cars, three ambulances
and several lost limbs and bruised ecos. I still

contend that it was worth it, but as you can
magine we were not invited back to rent the
tails (or any for that matter).

This is the first major gripe with the
hardcore underground scene, why the fuck
^re we like a bunch of snakes who see our
ails sticking out from the underbrush, de-
ide it looks like a good meal and end up
ievouring ourselves? Punks $nd skins
rashing rented halls of their brethren is a
Phenomena that takes place all over the
world. Do we really need armed security!
uards (like they have at most major hard core
lubs) and 200-pound bouncers so we don't
estroy ourselves? Evidently so, because I
ater went on to put a series of shows at a
ocalcommunifyoollegewherethey required
olice to be present and you jknow what
appened? Nothing, 10 shows with no ma-
or Hitch and everyone was paid their guar-
nteeby collegecheck. Pathetic isn't it? Well,
am, what does it mean, what can 1 do, yidda
e didda dee doo. I guess nothing, because
he only promoter who still does shows al-
lost anywhere on the East Coast is Mr.
andy Ellis. He has big bouncers and high
ticket prices (yet they are cheap compared to
slew York) and thousands of peopleturn out
o see the Circle Jerks still, bands still beg
Randy to open for The Exploited (like I once
did), and tne sun still rises in the east.

What's the solution? Obviously some
►pie are going to say look at Gilman Street,
hat works. Wen, if you have to travel 2,000
miles to cite an example something is fucked
p. I don't want tp whine about scene unity,
fter 10 years we aU know what that means.
What we need are people willing to put their
tsses on the line (like f did) and be prepared
o police themselves. We have to discipline
ur own, we cannot accept our friends de-

r I don't want to be like my parents or
Arhatever.ln that case it's time to shut UP and
ihell out $15 to see The Rollins band inNew
'ork, JU>pk; we know that independent
hows can work, the only problem Is the lack
>f co-ordination among bands, prompters
nd audience. 1 could count the number of
ndepehdent Jersey shows we've had in the

past two years on one hand, yet I could rattle
off about 50 great bands who live and work
here. Why the hell isn't somebody putting
on shows, why aren't we all? 'Cause we're
fucking lazy, that's why. It's easy to let other
people do our dirty work for us, and then we
can rag on them because they don't do things
the way they should be done. Almost every
kid in Jersey says what a dick Randy Now is.
I respect the guy, after attending shows at
City Gardens for the past nine years. Randy
is the perennial Boogie Man, the devil who
over-charges, rips bands off and doesn't
support the scene. Well, Jersey, who the hell
is, are you? Have you put on shows for 10
years despite the headache it causes? I
couldn't believe someone had the gall to
attack Jim Testa for not supporting the scene.
His magazine is called Jersey Beat, you idiot.
It's all about Jersey bands and goings on. If
you've been paying attention you know that
nobody in Jersey is putting on independent
shows. Don't you think its fascinating that
someone still cares enough to write about
the bands despite the fact that everybody
obviously doesn't give a shit about anybody
but themselves?

What is truly remarkable about New
Jersey is that so many goddamn talented
bands live here, yet not one person is willing
to sit down ana compile a listing or write
about the big picture instead of hyping their
small bunch of racist idiot friends. Ldon't
think that after five or six years 1 should still
have to knock my head against the wall,
bragging to the world how great so and so is
despite the fact they have just thrashed the
bathroom of the hall I've rented so they can
play, steal my amplifier and call me a greedy
f/ communist-kike bastard" because 1 could
only pay them $50 because they had a guest
list of 200. Give me a fucking break. New
Jersey probably also has the biggest number
of fanzines going of any small geographic
location in tne world. So why aren t there
more shows? Go look in the mirror, Jersey,
and pull your goddamned tail out of your
mouth. If you're going to decry the accom¬
plishments of Jim Testa's Jersey Beat or the
stamina of Randy Now, you better damn
well be able to cite some of your own ac¬
complishments. While the only solution to
these problems 1 could offer would be ob¬
vious and redundant, I am none the less
embarrassed for Jim and Randy for the abuse
that they've suffered at all of our hands. And
1 hate my self for giving up — what else could
I do, it's Jersey traditiori. What can you do?
Look in the mirror or shut up.

Samuel Shiffman, 131 N. 6 Avc, Highland
Park, NJ 08904

P.S. Next time: Putting out your own
record is so god-damned easy, why not do
it?

DAN O’MAHONY

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Recent events and scene politics 0'
to call them anything else) going on as a
result of my offering anything other than
praise or silence witn regards to the Hare
Krisna temple have left me a bit strained,
annoyed, and feeling a bit violated.

In CARRY NATION I wrote a song
called "Temple Walls", it is a non-threaten-

discuss my inspiration and relay my opin¬
ion. In this case I had written a song after
viewing the manner in which the represen¬
tatives of the Hare Krisna temple in San
Diego had chosen the individuals to whom
they presented their philosophy at a NO
FOR AN ANSWER show in San Ysidro. It
was my opinion that the members of the
temple were speaking mainly to people of a
younger age (younger than tne bulk of those
attending tne show) and to people who were
there alone. This is what I saw, whether it is
a standard practice or a roll of the dice does
not erase my experience or the disapproval
it created. I came, I saw, I speak my piece. I
have never denied the temple it's right to
speak theirs or ignored my right to comment
upon it. I'm here to discuss method.

It is wrong, and does an injustice to thepoint
one tries to make to misrepresent one s op¬
position in matters of dissagreement. We do
right by ourselves and by our vision to speak
from personal experience, to speak from
educated positions. We are well advised to
remain silent in matters which we have not
investigated, speculation deserves only to
be presented as such.

I've been listening to interviews on
college radio.

I've been getting telephone calls.

I've been reading the Enquirer lately,
(zine not tabloid)

I'm here to discuss method, misrepre¬
sentation, education, and speculation.

My 'Tiny pinch of knowledge about krisna
consciousness..." stems from having read
the all important 'Gita as well as several of
Prabhupad's works cover to cover nearly
seven years ago, from having visited the
temple numerous times, having spoken with
it's representatives on multiple occasions,
talking with friends who at the time we met
were of po religious sect but have since be¬
come devotees of the temple, and even read¬
ing the 'zine in question. All things consid¬
ered, I must; speculate that anything shy of
total devotion to the philosophy constitutes
only a "tiny pinch".

I see the beauty in editorial comments
and feel that to be at all useful they require
elaboration, examinations and support. For
one's text to refer to my logic as "nonsense"
without explaining theclaim is simply name-
calling, as is unsubstantiated appointing of
the title "Self-proclaimed knignts of truth
and the unexplained discussion of "Pretty
trophies". Let's try to make sense of these
things in the future, name-calling docs no
justice to the select beautiful truths those
representing the temple arc trying to for¬
ward.

I'm here to discuss method, misrepre¬
sentation, education, and speculation.

"He says he's not specifically against any of
the philosophy but that he's against tnoir
tactics of approaching the'eonfused and
lonely youth' but hedoesthesamc thing. ..He
stands up there on the stage in front of

lay'press tennis'on this issue. It's get ting t<

e a bad habit for the underground in gen

What is all this hype lately about cen¬
sorship? This is nothing new. So what's the
big deal? We in the undeiground have been
fighting this battle for many years. 1 myself

^e^ Uve'crew welcome in an y home,
ur society would Jibe ypu to. believe that
hey are as nasty as it gets; But what is all
:omes ddwn to is a game for the media, set
ip by our lamie, stagnating Society to'divert
rour attention away from the realcomip-
ion that is going on against people like
“yself in the American system we who
' "tochaUe *

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A

ut of the question. The lawhas no right to
ecide that for us. But let's not turn it into
ommercialism to the point of forgettinf
what i? really happening to us in the rea
underground of rock'n'roll. I have ahead]
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prison I face four more charges (that I know
of) in three other states. One is for threaten¬
ing the life of my audience. Even back in 1982
I was arrested for inciting a riot and indecent
exposure. Jails and hospitals are just part of
a G.G. Allin tour. But because my shows are
so brutally real, it scares the shit out of people.
But reality is not a pretty sight. So as you can
see, these others get ricn oft the media and I
rot in prison because of the cover up.

But rock'n'roll today is nothing but

E olitical ass-kissing anyway. If I was Jello
iafra, the Red Hot Chi liPeppers or whoever,
1 would have the backing of all the music
press behind me. But I am the dagger in
everyone's back. I am rock'n'roll's embar¬
rassment because I refuse to play by the
rules. I create my own. I'm uncool, unclean
and unacceptable to the always cool music
biz folks and the law alike. So as it stands, I

rground c

thecommanding leader whetheranyone likes
it or not.

So for all you people who are so wor¬
ried about being banned or having your
record pulled from stores, well 1 have nopity
for you. I've been down that road my whole
life. Try spending some time in prison for
your rock'n'roll.

G.G Allin -206045/ Adrian, MI Prison Facility

Areata is pretty much the fog capital of
the world, so when I say it's foggy tonight.

I'm talking like total opacity of the soul. The
stuff is condensing on the tips of my hair, to
the point where it feels like someone under¬
ground is grabbing me by the high tops and
dipping me like a paintbrush into the gray
swirling sky.

Its Wednesday, but it feels more like a
Tuesday if you know what I mean. Nobody
much on the streets except for a couple psy¬
chotic teenagers racing their muscle cars
headlong into oblivion. Their brothers and
cousins, and yeah, sisters too, are on the
other side of the planet prepared to pour out
their lifeblood on the sands of hell in defense
of the internal combustion engine. It's the
kind of situation that could turn into World
War III. 1 don't care.

I was going to write about music; maybe
I still will. iVly friend Gabc tells me: "I like it
when you write about music. After all, the
name of this magazine isn't Maximum
PunknPolitix or MaximumLawrencel lippiedays,
it's Maximum Rockmoli y

And he's right, I guess, except my
reason forgetting involved in this particular
counterculture, or any other counterculture,
was never exclusively music. I was looking
for a more intelligent, more creative way of
life; that's what arew me into both hippie
and punk.

Did 1 find it? You tell me. The whole
punk scene seems pretty stupid, except when
you compare it to any other scene. I was
more wholeheartedly supportive of the
hippie scene when it was in its prime, but I

was a lot younger then, and more open to
suggestion.

I was talking to a DJ at KHSU, the local
college radio station tonight. Like virtually
every alternative music type person, he's
aware of the MC5 and the Stooges and how
much effect they've had on modern punk
rock. But I was surprised to find that this
guy, a really intelligent guy, I might add,
was totally unaware of another aspect of the
MC5 and the Stooges, one which is at least as
important as the music they created.

Both bands were originally part of a
loose-knit commune called Trans-Love En¬
ergies, later turning into the White Panthers.
The White Panthers were radical as fuck.
They openly preached revolution (read the
liner notes to the first MC5 album, if you can
find an uncensored version). By the time the
White Panther movement had run its course,
most of its leaders had done serious time as
prisoners and/or fugitives. They were
stockpiling guns and conducting weapons
training. At tneir peak, they were one of the
most powerful political forces in Ann Arbor,
to the point where the mayor or the police
chief would come talk to the Panthers before
trying to put some new program in place.
They created the 'Tribal Council," a net¬
work that included communes, food co-ops,
a free clinic, runaway shelter, drug crisis
center, and a people's ballroom, that func¬
tioned almost like an alternative city gov¬
ernment.

Music was a big part of that counter¬
culture, but almost never to the extent where
it became the main, or only point of it. Shows
were as much political rallies as entertain¬
ment events, and there was no way you were
going to get through a typical Ann Arbor gig
without nearing at least one or two speakers
expounding on some variation of the White
Panther platform of "rock and roll, dope,
and fucking in the streets." Oh yeah. Chair¬
man Mao was usually in there too.

Of course the Stooges and the 5 even¬
tually signed to major labels and ^ort of
forgot about the revolution, as did most of
the old White Panther crowd, but that com¬
bination of music, politics, and culture made
a powerful impression on me, enough so
that when I saw something similar happen¬
ing years later under the name of punk, I was
immediately attracted.

Yeah,l loved the music, but there had
to be something more to it than music to hold
my attention (unless of course it's the
Ramones, in which case I'm quite willing to
overlook their views on Hegelian dialectics
or their inability to count past four) (oops, I
forgot, in "Cretin Hop," they make it all the
way to seven).

That's a little background to help ex¬
plain where I'm coming from; now, if you're
interested, here's what I think about some of
the music being put out these days under the
general heading of "punk" and /or "alterna¬
tive." Actually, here's what I think about
most of it: it sucks, really bad. Why? Because
it doesn't mean anything, doesn't stand for
anything, doesn't represent anything more
substantial than a desire for novelty and
escapism.

I guess one of the worst offenders is the
70s style cock-rock, which, because it fea¬
tures Stooges-type grunge-oid feedback
guitars, somehow manages to gain credibility
with certain punk types, a couple of whom
you'll even find writing for this here zine. By
now you're no doubt thinking "Sub Pop,'
though that label is only the most visible

2

offender. Tune in almost any college radio
station in the country, or check out their
" AlternativeTop 40" playlists, and you'll see
hat the airwaves are clogged up with the
same bloated, self-indulgent, pompous di¬
nosaur rock that I spent most of the 1970s
tryingto avoid.

The thing that drives me most nuts
about it is all these 19 year-old college DJs
~ushing about how these bad imitations of
ed Zeppelin are so "new" and exciting.
Americans are notorious for having abso-
utely no sense of history, but geez, 1 never
id any trouble figuring out that the kind of
usic my parents listened to was not exactly
the wave of the future.

Yeah, I know it's dangerous to general-
ze; unfortunately it's impossible to say any¬
thing without generalizing. So of course
there's going to i>e some good music in the
~ub Pop / college radio scene, and please
on't waste ink, paper, and time telling me.
ust the other day I heard a Mudhoney song
hat, even though it started out as total stu-
id chunka-chunka cheese metal, eventu-
lly melted into someganja-soaked psycho-
riffs that I found quite pleasing (but {am an
old hippie, remember).

So what, though. Even if I found a
whole bunch of Mud noney songs that I liked
(very doubtful, though; 1 don't nave time to
smoke that much pot), I wouldn't be able to
forget that this is the band that managed to
-amble on for five pages of a tiny-print MRR
nteryiew without saying much of anything.
/Vhat's that have to ao with music? To you,
maybe nothing; to me, everything.

Because music, any art form, doesn't
xist in a vacuum. It's an extension and an
xpression of the way we perceive reality
nd the way we live pur lives. That might
Jve you a clue to how I feel about another
subset of punkdom, the one that relies mai nly
on shock value. Did the name G.G. Allin
:ross your mind? Might as well use him as
he most obvious example pf an entertain-
ent style that, as far as I can tell, appeals
ainly to inhibited, white upper middle class
types willing to pay money to watch some¬
one debase himself in a way that they them¬
selves haven't gut the guts to. It's kind pf like
S&M byjproxy.

G.C, Alfin? I don't think he's funny, or

bused too many innocent people for me to

I Ll *1 k 4

sure Livermore, all you like is boring
stvle politically correct bands. Wrong<
hile 1 liked a lot of the early 80s hardcore
>ands, that this zine cut its teeth on, that
;enre is dead as a doornail as far as Pm
oncemed. For one thing, if I have to read, a
yric sheet to figure out .what important po-
ltical insights you're propounding, forget it,
won't bother. Second, if you haven't 50 $ a
une I can sine alone to ana abeat 1 ci

melody, j
old platfc

But bands like Primus, who can play
the same song for even longer with a lot less
lust don't inspire me to drag out the
'Oiyestcr bell bottoms. I
unplcas-

vou must know the truth, and here's
whercl'll have to get a little metaphysical on
you.

Matter and energy, as Mr. Einstein
pointed out, are not separate entities, but all
the same force field vibrating at different
speeds / intensities. Slow your sound waves
down enough and you've got solid rock, I
mean like the granite variety. Rev 'em up
near the speed of light ana you've got a
bunch of archangels plucking tucking harps
in the goddam celestial choir. Our own hu¬
man sensory perceptions, which determine
who, what, and where we are, run the same
gamut.

You can draw an analogy between the
energy-matter continuum and the mind-
body one. More than an analogy, in fact; it's
the exact same thing. But there's definitely
some music that appeals more to the intellec¬
tual end (classical violin shlockola, for ex¬
ample), and other music that's totally a body
thing (funk, obviously). One'sall high pitched
and maddeningly intricate, and the other's
all bass and drums and mind-numbing'
repetitive. One gives me a headache and t.
other makes me sick to my stomach.

The music that I like manages to blend
both ends of the spectrum. No violins, thank
you (unless it's country/blucgrass fiddles),
out lots of guitars and melodic narmonies on
the high end of things, and a driving, power¬
ful beat that doesn't dominate or overwhelm,
but works in counterpoint to the melody
line. Did somebody say Bad Religion? Well,
I might as well; I still hear conflicting reports
about their business practices, but musically,
1 ca n't think of anyone that even comes close
to them.

Contradictions, anyone? Didn't I say
earlier that you can't separate music from
the way people live their lives? Yet don't 1
sound more ready to cut Bad Religion some
slack about their financial attituaes for no
other reason than that I really like them?

Well, yes. Which brings me to the most
maddening contradiction in my current
musical tastes. Like my favorite rap group
right now is NWA, Niggers With Attitudes,
that is, in case you've been living in some
cave the last few years. NWA sing some of
the most violent, sexist, moronic lyrics you'd
ever want to hear, but sorry, they're fucking
good . 1 mean, they make me laugh, which is
what good hardcore used to do, still does in
fact.

But no way are NWA politically cor¬
rect, and if they were a white punk band, I'd
probably be slagging them all over these
pages. Why the double standard? It's some¬
thing that drives me crazy about white lib¬
erals: they'll tolerate, even romanticize be¬
havior on the part of "oppressed" peoples
that they would never stand for from mem¬
bers of tneir own race. And here I am doing
the same thing.

What's worse is that there arc other rap
groups like Public Enemy and Boogie Down
Productions who put forth a much more
positive and self-affirming image of black
culture, and 1 like them a lot, especially BDP,
but when I really want to get down, it's
always back to NWA.

Which means, if you pursue the logic
of all this far enough, is that my own views of
what constitutes good and baa musicarcjust

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pointless as yours are, and if you take them
as anything more than a starting point for
thinking about your own ideas, you still ain't
gettin' u.

What it finally comes down to, not just
in music, but in everything you do, is how
does it make you feel? And don't just say
"good," because all sorts of rotten things can
make you feel some kind of good. But does it
make you feel better? Because ultimately (and
I know tons of people will disagree with me
on this, but I can't help it if they're full of shit)
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lives, to illuminate the human condition.
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Well, I got back from my "vacation"
about a week ago so now's as good a time as
any to vomit it unto paper for your enjoy¬
ment. I had the horrible misfortune of taking
Greyhound out to Oakland which, next to
passing on the free vasectomy offered to me
by a Dearborn, Michigan doctor last Febru¬
ary, was one of the biggest mistakes I ever
made. Never before have 1 encountered as
many numbskulls, shitheads, hicks,
hayseeds, derelicts, mental patients, and
bonafide nosepicking morons in my life.
$118.00 for a round trip sounded too good to
be true and of course it was. Nowhere in my
little travel packet did it explain that 1 would
have to spend 104 hours putting up with the
slimiest, most asinine group of twits ever
assembled in one place since the last Chicago
straight-edge show.

From the moment I stepped into the
bus station, I knew I was in trouble. They
were piping in an odd mixture of music
which sounded to me like a combination of
the latest new age hit and the theme from the
"Excorcist". Mybo wels started churning un¬
pleasantly. In oreder to avoid the scary music
that I suspected was concocted to keep the

conversation of those standing in front of me
in line. What a mistake! Army people!!!!! I
blocked them out and concentrated on my
plans for keeping my sanity aboard No.206d
Then some truly painful news came down..
NO SMOKING!!! 52 hours of bus with a
fresh pack of Kools nestled against my breast
and nothing to do with them! I thought it

big mouthed Army girl's life story
then four times. The ex-cons at the rear of the
bus were in a constant argument with the
panicked looking driver about their rights as
Americans to smoke any goddamn time they
felt like it. I slept for about seven minutes
that night. The next days things started get¬
ting worse. We were picking up countless
military geeks on leave, clueless Deadheads

(What other kind is there???) and guys on
parole going home to murder their loved
nes. In Cheyenne, the scaiy looking guy in
Dago-T and shorts got on the phone. He
hatted for awhile ana then shouted angrily
nd hung up. He looked straight at me.
Fuckin'bitcV*. I looked around but no one
lse was in sight. "She hung up om me". This
psycho was talking to meT ' vVell I'll show
her. When I get to Denver, she's gonna be
sorry she hung up on me, ruckin' cunt!" A
hick got on ana argued with the driver from
alt Lake City to Keno about his drinking
nd smoking rights. The army girl made
olack jokes, jew jokes, spic jokles, dead
aby jokes (in front of a poor white trash
mother with her infant in her lap) and I got
the feeling thafthe only reason she didn't
\ake nigger jokes is because a black
angbanger from the West side of Chicago
was part of her creepy entourage, i lost
ount of how many times she expressed her
lislike for "lesbos and faggots". According
o her, they should all be snot. (Read more on
his lovely little lady in the next A.Zippo).

Once we left tne drunk hick in Reno, I
hought were home free. The worst was be-
lind me. I hadn't eaten since we left, and
ven my worryless girlfriend was remark-
ng on my shaking and paleness. I had had
iiarrhea since we left, holding it till we made
stops (the bathroom on the dus broken, of
ourse). SaltLake City was severe. Crum¬
bing pay toilets stood together in line, sneer-
ng at me as I entered the sleaziest bathroom
n the free world. Dimeless, I crept in to a
>roken handicapped stall and let tne yellow
entipede do its acrid dance down my
inus,oush! In the stall next to me I could see
two pairs of Jockeys filled with decaying
* luman turds. In Reno, though the can was
leaner, my J?pwel sludge turned a nasty
shade of green! I attributed this to a combi¬
nation of ail the Pepto Bismol and Dramaminc
1 had gobbled, and the fact that I hadn't eaten
nything since departure but an apple. Said
pple's now brown peel sat smoldering in
the bowl below me as I contemplated my
seemingly hopeless situation. Only a few
short hours away, I thought. This is gonna
be easy. Right. Actually, things weren't all
that bad until about a half hour outside of
Jacrament. Some dingbayt girl started sing-
ng and dancung, "Iln going ho-o-o-mer,
ver and over and over. I concentrated on
y book, Reading by the small overhead
ight I almost forgot all my troubles.

Then we pulled into Sacramento for a
twenty minute layover. I won't bother going
nto all the details here. It would take too
ong to tell you about the crack dealers and
>assed out winos in th^^can, the violent
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ng Americruiser.

: Two points that should be mentioned

..*T , 1_ ^ it .am aUaUi.c mt Unfru'o

„y about 25 or 30, She's like a walking
ombie. . Wearing a 4rab peach 'colored

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hair looks wet; It's a nice, normal haircut,
[bout shoulder length, but wait!!! Roughly
hree inches of hair nas been shaved off the
front of her head, revealing a fresh, vicious

scar! "My god" I thought, she's been given a
lobotomy, and from judging from the black
and blue marks on her head and face,electric
shocks as well!" 1 assumed the friendlylook-
ing guy with her must be her shrink. Then I
realized the true nature of his attachment to
her. He'was her jealous boyfriend who had
hunted her down on Greyhound. He had
beaten the shit out of her for shackin' up with
a "nigro" or a "Messikin" and then given her
a homemade lobotomy. I had myself con¬
vinced that he was about to take her back
home to Vallejo to bury her in a 12 foot
trench in his backyard. The bus driver ended
up losing their luggage, and when they got
off in Fairfield, tne guy freaked out on the
driver, saying he needed his medication in a
half hour ana it was IN HIS BAG! I wonder
if their were many murders in Fairfield that
night... B: The truly psychotic young fellow
with the pony tail who boarded and pro¬
ceeded to argue with the ditzy singin' and
dancin' girl until she got off.. This normally
wouldnT bother me, but the insane look in
his eyes combined with his threats to come
oner there and make her stop, or to fuck her
to death, did. Not to mention, he kept turn¬
ing around to gaze intently at Portia who
was, of course, oblivious.

Anyway, we stayed for four or five
days, spending about half our time at Tim's
house in San Francisco. The palatial sur¬
roundings (cable TV, VCR, big couches, and
or pizzas and beer) calmed me suffi¬
ciently . I showed the movie at Gilman and
got a lukewarm response. Tim commented
that it should be "shorter, faster, and louder".
I was tempted to ask,"like you?", but de¬
cided ap * ** L 1

ciated
ot in

..ousemates over the word 'balls". Appar¬
ently, these housemates felt that such a word
was an inappropriate substitue for the word
"guts" because it excludes women. This
came as quite a surprise to me since 1 had
used the word "balls" in a context that had
nothing whatsoever to do with genders, nor
was I even thinking in genders at that time.

m ’ 1 ' ” 1 -—’ ~;ht and in addition

elcted the words

"pussy" and
I'm considerin

Thankfully, I was set straie
to " balls , 1 have also a<

only say words Tike '‘please"
you" or perhaps I'll just stop using words
completely and learn sign language, but
then again. I'd probably end up pissing off a
substantial group of deaf people. Mypoint
is, there's nothing wrong with words. "Guts"
might be more acceptable to you than "balls",
but I like to to have two ways of describing
that wonderful mixture of courage and in¬
tegrity and I say it's ridiculous to even think
about limitingVny vocabulary just because
somebody reads something into my words
that I didn't even put'therc. Balls, Balls,
BALLS!!!

Ok, that's off my chest and I feel ten
pounds lighter. The remainder of our visit
(after obligatory tourist stuff) was spent
wandering around with some guy named
Jeff and wasting time with a guy named
David.

Before I forget, some quick Bay Area
notes. The new record store, which I can't
remember the name of (Epicenter, Slow Boy --
TY) is rad. Not because of all the cool rare
records and ridiculous political reading pro¬
paganda, but because they have boothes to
sit in and free coffee to drink without having
to pretend like you give a shit what they're

ally selling,
rd buyingbe

I'm sure it will become a
record buying beacon to punx who travel to
SF from around the country, but I also
strongly suggest that scum without any
monry like me go there to take up space/
Also,! talked with Larry Livermore on the
phone. He's up in Northern CA playing
Randy of the Redwoods (as A1 Socracy puts
it) so I didn't get a chance to see him in
person. We argued for awhile and I tried to
ranagle a record deal out of him, and then he
told me I was famous. "Famous?", said I, "
So where's the money?" "You don't have to
be rich to be famous" said Larry, and I
suppose he's right. Think about Manson,
Gacy, Gilmore... Anyway, I told Larry that
there is no way in hell I'm famous, and he
said "Well you're famous in my book" which
is lovely albeit very Larrylike thing to say.
And the truth is I found out that I am famous,
at least in my own small way because on the
way home, 1 was approached by a punk in
the Omaha bus station who was truly flab¬
bergasted to find out that Ben Weasel
("You're that asshole in Maximum Rock and
Roll!!!") was sitting at a Greyhound station
in East Nebraska trying to bum a cigarette
from him. He didmt smoke, of course, and
with only one dollar left, I didn't either.

The bus ride home was actually not too
bad. There were a coupleof big fat galoots in
their thirties traveling with their moms which
was kind of sad.. The one guy got a bag of
burgers from McDonalds (Oops, I said the
"M^word) and forced them on his mom. It
was sick watching him, "C'mon ma, only
four more to go now, they're gettin' cold!*'
He carried a big mason jar of water with him
and every hour, no matter what time of day
or night, he would yell "Drink!" and pour
water into his poor mammy's mouth, or
more often all over her face, as she wasn't
much more then a smiling vegetable.

When we got home we slept for a few
hours and then hopped in Portia's car for the
drive to Florida. Needless to say, this trip
was quite a bit less tense. We went to the
beach, hung out at the gator farm, gawked at
the white trash hangin' out at the Circle K
and listened to our hosts, Chris and Susie,
tell scary stories about their noxious neigh¬
bors. We drank Budweiser (The King of
Beers no matter what Livermore tries to tell
you), ate bratwurst (almost unheard of in
Florida according to Chris) and watched
features such as "Color Me Blood Red" from
Susie's vast and wonderful video collection.
Interesting state Florida is. Thought of by
most as a lovely tourist resort and the place
where your grandparents go to die, it's actu¬
ally a hot beaof racial violence, not to mention
dull ignorance. Almost everybody in the
Tampa area, punk or not, uses the word
"nigger". Interesting to me because where I
1 ‘ heavy word you didn't

^er" is a nice sounding
l something other than
a derogatory meaning because tnen I'd get
the chance to roll that wonderful word off
ue more often. But when it's coming

nr

out of the mouths of spoiled white boys to
describe someone who they consider beneath
them, it kinda loses its appeal. Like I said,
lotsa racial violence, whites killing blacks,
blacks killing whites, and lotsa folks killing
cops. Four were shot down in one day while
I was there! They also have an interesting
little device which frankly gave me the
motherfucking willies. Little video cameras
on street corners! Just sitting there, maybe
they're on, maybe they're not but you'll never

really know for sure so be careful who you're
with and whatyou do, cause we got an eye
on you! What Tampa needs is a squadron of
eople armed withbaseball bats to sneak up
ehind the pesky little fuckers and put 'em
outta commission. I noticed a similar 1984-
ish type camera in none other then
everybody's favorite hippy dippy town, San
Francisco, right on the city s buses! Hey
somebody oughta take the money they're
spending on the videotaping you wishy
washy liberals and make tne busses run on
time for Chrissakes!" Waiting 45 minutes
for P.T. ain't my kinda fun.

But back to Florida... We v went to a gig
in Gainesville where Chris' band. Pink
Lincolns, were playing. I hadn't been to
Gainesville in two years, and either I didn't
notice the first time or else things have really
changed down there, because I've never seen
so many long haired, tye dyed, poetry ped¬
dling, macrame weaving aouenebags this
side of Mississippi. Chris and I dubbed it the
New Berkeley and had an enjoyable stay.
Then I went home to face many bills, includ¬
ing a big one to the government (seems I owe
those stooges 300 clams in taxes on the $4000
I made last year.).

Regardless, the whole trip gave me a
buncha swell experiences to think about,
and I learned a few things as well. #1: beinc
different is just dandy, but on a Greyhound
bus the "different" people are scarier to me
then "normal" people. To me, drunk stupid
mean and violent might be "different", l>u
extreme exhibitions of things I already hah
in small doses is lousy with a capitol 'L" ir
my book.

The #2 thing I learned is that not onl]
can anybody be famous, but almost every
body is in one way or another. Even tni
losers I wrote about from my bus experi
ences are now known to 11,000 readers o
whatever the circultion of this rag is. Ip
Florida I met a kid who saw me naked a
Gilman last summer. I offered my condo
lences. I met a guy at a Chicago show whe
was suprised that I didn't tell him to fuck of
when I met him. It's a small world and a
pretty bad smelling one too.

The third thing I learned is that I would
much rather be running around the countr
meeting interesting people and having load
of fun than sitting nere starting in on thi
gigantic workloaathat's piled up since I left
what really steams me is not the fact that
have a lot of work to do on my persona
projects, Christ, they're fun! It's the knowl
edge that once I finish, this work will no
have done a single thing for my financia
well being aside from the fact that I'll hav
the time to go out and look for a job. An<
sitting here, thinking about what it's gonn
be like washing somebody else's dirty wor
in general, that crazy fuckin' bus full o
psychos from the other side is starting to
look kind of nice.

$

If you're in the army, this might be a
ood time to think about getting out, Thi:
ing in the Gulf is really fucked up. A. lot o

people aren't taking it too seriously, but if
you think about it, it's hard to imagine the
situation turning into anything but a war.
Shit, just look at all the good reasons Bush
for going to war:

1) He doesn't have to fight it,and nei¬
ther do his friends or relatives. Rich fuckheads
never get drafted!!) Great timing to distract
usfre
Ourv

pt! Let' s go fight i

2) Our economy is about to collapse.
Now Bush has an excuse: it's all because of
those damn Arabs over there, trying to jack
up the price of OUR oil, which just happens
to be sitting on their land. And of course, the
already existing racism in this country against
Arab people will help that little theory Song.

no! but don't worry—luckily,,
have to be done now that the defense of our
great nation is at stake.

4) Lots of money to be made. War

fame and huge fortunes to a few already-:
fuckheads who have run our government
ever since. (To name a few: Rockefeller,
Morgan, Cooke, Vanderbilt, Armour...)

5) A whole shitload of other reasons.
Including: whv
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and kick Uncie Sam's butt. But while I'm
totally into the idea of the U.S. getting its butt
kicked, I'm not too crazy about a whole mess
of people getting slugntered for it. I heard
someone say, " id 1 ove to see the U.S. get its
butt kicked, but I'd like to see it happen here
at home." Now that's something I can agree
with. And I'll tell you, it’s about fucking time
we kicked some butt around here. We've
been sleepy little creatures for too damn
long.

Incidentally, Saddam Hussein is play¬
ing this thing REALLY well. His peace pro¬
posal (everyone takes their troops out of
everywhere: Israel out of the West bank and
Gaza, Iraq out of Kuwait, etc., his peace with
Iran, his treatment of the hostages and diplo¬
mats... he's handling the whole situation
very skillfully. And the U.S. are handling it
like a bunch of mafia thugs. And let's not
forget: the U.S. invaded Panama not so long
ago. Where does it get the moral authority to
condemn invasions?

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alive enough to do it. (If you know someone
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the War Resisters League office in New York.
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out of themilHaiy, and he's a really COO
guy. (He's also an anarchist and a Maximum
Rocknroll reader.) He'll either help you get
out or refer you to someone else who can
help. His number at the WRL office is (212)
228 h)450. _ ,

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is also
fucked up (and don't think that because the
U.S. is busy dealing with the Gulf crisis, it
will leave the rest of the world alone. The
major escalation of the Vietnam War hap-
pened in February of 1965. In April, the U.b.
invaded the Dominican Republic.)

A long time ago I wrote a column about
why I don r eat bananas. Well now there's
another good reason: workers for the
Chiquita banna company in Honduras went
on strike for over a month because Chiquita
wouldn't give them a raise. In the end, the
Honduran Army came in and broke up the
strike, saving the US company from having
to fork over an extra 50 cents an hour (or
whatever it was). In the same week, the
Bolivian army broke up a two—week long
oil workers strike in Gamiri, Bolivia.

And it's chaos in Peru, where new
President Fujimori did a total turnaround on
his campaign promise of no economic
"shock" $2a gallon, I think). When gas prices
go up, everything else follows, hujimori
started off his term by calling a state of
emergency in a large part of Peru (some of it
was already under a state of emergency),
including the capital city, Lima. Within 3
days of the President's announcement of his
economic plan, 6,000 people were arrested
for looting and rioting ana related "crimes.

(I never understood trie big deal about loot¬
ing. I guess crimes against propertyjust don t
seem much like cnmes to me. Especially
theft. Did you know that the US National
Guard is allowed to shoot people on sight for
looting? Yep, right here in the USA.)

Last month in Peru, 48 members of the
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
escaped from prison and the government
declared a state of emergency in the whole
country. Police detained 20,000 people in
their attempt to find the escaped prisoners,
and guess how many they caught? Three.

And in the Dominican Republic more
than ten people were killed, hundreds
wounded and 2,000 arrested during a general
strike protesting the President's new eco¬
nomic austerity measures (that is, massive
price hikes ana laying off tons of workers—
things that the international banks require
third world countries to do to work off their
debts, and just plain protesting the Presi¬
dent, Joaquin Baiaguer, who "won" the mas-

ively fraudulent elections by less than 1%.
In the USA, a country that seems t

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Y'know?), one small victory has pulled
through. Federal Judge Edward Rafeedi
ruled in a Los Angeles court that Mexica
doctor Humberto Alvarez Machain—wh
was accused of helping murder a DE A agen

in i 9 g 5 -could return to Mexico, where hi

faces no criminal charges.The DEA (which is
a branch of the JusticeDepartment) inciden
tally, violated the Mexico/US extraditjo
treaty and international Jaw by kidnappin
Alvarez from Mexico without bothering t
as k—or even tell—the Mexican government
The DEA denied it. But this judge—who was

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tuaily had the integrity to set the recor
straight. He wrote in his decision: 'Wit
authorization from the highest levels of th
DEA and perhaps the Department of Justice
the United States through its paid agents
unilaterally abducted Dr. Machain fro
Mexican soil." 1 guess that kills Judg
Rafeedie's chances of making the Suprem

Well, that's about it. my address is P.O.
Box 137, Prince St. Station, NYC NY 10012.
Feel free to write me but there's about a 95%
chance I won't write back. I got fired fro
my job on July 4th, so you'd think I’d hav
lots of free time, but no... 1 now spend AL1
my time doing "political" work (putting ou
news updates, working on anti—interven
tion stuff, etc.) so I have exactly zero fr~

time. , , ,

P.S. Because of a telephone miscom-
munication, my response to Ace Backwardr'
letter in MRR #88 didn't really say what
meant it to say. I wasn't asking

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Ever notice that most of the world's
conflicts eminate from areas that used to be
colonies of the British, French, etc? Cyprus
used to be British, as was India/Pakistan,
Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Isreal/Pales-
tine. Lebanon was France's, as was Vietnam,
Cambodia, Haiti. Africa was France's,
Britain's, Holland's, Germany’s. There is a
legacy these Empires leave when they
crumble/withdraw: chaos. They disrupt the
natural flow of a native culture, then leave it
with a political void. The former rulers ben¬
efit from this, because the former colony will
stay in disaaray and will be dependent on its

former owners for both trade and "protection"

So it should come as no surprise that
when the British withdrew from ana "granted
independence" to the Arab world, they left
not only that power void, but carved up the
non in a way that would guarantee en-
iring struggles to gain identity and fill in
thpolitical and economic vacuums. Like
the French did with Lebanon, Israel and
Palastine, the British created artificial "king¬
doms" where there were none before, leav¬
ing some small "emirates" oil rich and needing
British / US protection for their "cushy deals
with Western oil companies, while creatine
other states that were to remain poor and
identity-less.

The point is this: the Western mass
media consistently fails to mention the root
of all these conflicts and fails to put theblame
where it really lies-at the feet of the very
countries now rushing to "protect" the arti¬
ficial countries they drew on the map in the
first place.

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“Rebel Music” is finally a reality at KTSB
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the station bureaucracy, DJs Buggin’ Out (that’s
me) and Crew Cut have finally got a weekly
show featuring music of struggle and resis¬
tance. “Rebel Music" plays music of revolution¬
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political issue each Tuesday at 10PM (past
shows have featured music and discussion of
racism, capitalism and censorship for example).
We’re looking for submissions of all types of
music, especially hardcore/punk, reggae, anti¬
folk, rap etc. Please include bio info and details
about local struggles so we can circulate it
during our show. Also let us know if you want a
copy of the show during which we use your
music. Send your music to: KTSB, clo DJ
Buggin’ Out, P.O. Box D, Austin, Texas 78713-
7209. However, to avoid the fucking station
censors who open our mail before it reaches us,
you can directly write us at Robert Ovetz (aka
Buggin' Out), P.O. Box 49814, Austin, Texas
78765. No CDsll! Yours in struggle, Robert

Program: The S & M Show
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With her opening shot “I’ll bet you thought
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Since 1979, she’s hostel the “S & M
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As some of you might know Champaign is
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Page 1

The Maintenance of Power By Joel wing

Behind the U.S.’s Sending of Troops To Saudi Arabia

Operation DesertSand Shield

MRR NEWS welcomes your contributions in the way of original articles, newspaper clippings, or hot tip reporting

For America’s Blacks, Life Is Better

i

By Joel Wing

“From what is said in
much of the media, one would
think the state of race relations
in America had deteriorated to
a postwar low. But nothing
could be further from the truth.
So opened an editorial by Burns
W. Roper, chairman of the
Roper Organization. Mr.
Roper’s group conducts polls
on the state of race relations in
the United States, and his
editorial presented the results
from the latest such poll. The
survey found that attitudes
among African Americans and
whites had vastly improved
since the last Roper poll
conducted in 1978. While the
attitudes of those polled might
be better than in previous years,
the Roper study overlooks the
multi-iaccted racism of the
United States and represents
the shortcomings ol white
America’s understanding of
race relations in this country.

The Roper Organiza¬
tion’s poll surveyed 2,000 people
across the country to “measure
the conditions of the races, un¬
affected by any mention of
race.” The questions asked had
to do with crime, housing, em¬
ployment, the state of mack
America and others. In each of
these categories the poll found
“major improvements” from the
last time the group had con¬
ducted such a survey. For ex¬
ample, the poll found that only
21 % of those whites asked said
that they objected to having
African Americans live by them,
down from 28% in 1978. The
survey also found that 17% of
whites feared “reverse dis¬
crimination,” down from 32%,
and that half of African Ameri¬
cans, and 68% of whites, polled
felt that conditions for African
Americans were excellent or
good. (Burns W. Roper, “For
America’s Blacks, Life Is Bet¬
ter,” SJlChroniclc, 7/27/90) As
these questions portray, the
study centered around the
prejudices of individuals,
prejudice being a negative or
positive attitude towards a
group. What this analysis
Continued Page 2 Col 1

was the name given to the stationing
of up to 25Q;000 U.S. troops in
Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. President
Bush stated that the American forces
were sent to Saudi Arabia to deter
an impending attack from Saddam
Hussein. The President also spoke
of protecting the U.S.’s oil interests
in the region and of its opposition to
aggression to explain the largest
US. military operation since the
Vietnam war. These explanations,
however, do not relay to the
American public the true reasons
behind the U.S.’s dramatic response
to Iraq’s President Hussein. Rather
than protect Saudi Arabia from an
invasion, or simply to protect
America’s own oil supply, the Bush
administration has sent the
American military to the Persian
Gulf to prevent Iraq from emerging
as a major regional power that could
challenge the United States in the
Middle East.

Iraq has had aspirations to be
the dominant Arab power in the
Middle East for the past two
decades. Saddam Hussein’s first
bid for regional hegemony took
place after the 197# Camp David
peace accords between Israel and
Egypt. Egypt, formerlv the leading
Arab nation, was ostracized by the
Arab community for recognizing the
state of Israel. To fill this leadership
vacuum, in stepped Iraq. Iraq’s
attack on Iran in 1980, which started
the Iran-lraq war, was also part of
this bid for power as President
Hussein hoped to vanquish the
traditionally dominant Persians from
the Gulf. Baghdad’s invasion
however, turned into a prolonged
eight-year war of attrition which
sidetracked Iraq’s regional
ambitions. (Robin Wright, “Saddam
Has Seized Mideast Supremacy; He
alters power balance with single
action/ S.F. Chronicle . 8/3/90;
John Moberly, “Iraq In I he Aftermath
of the Gulf War,’’ Asian Affairs . 10/
89, p.309) With the end of hostilities
between the two countries in 1988,
Iraq was able to renew its plans for
hegemony as it emerged from the
war as the leading Arab military
power with the fourth largest army
in the world, chemical weapons,
and ballistic missiles. (Bill Javetskj,
Amy Borrus, Doug Harbrecht Seth
Payne. John Rossant, Stanley Reed
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the attention of the United States
and would lead to the present
confrontation over Kuwait.

The United States began to
focus attention upon Iraq in 1988
as the country’s bid for power in the
Middle East began to reemerge. At
first, the new Bush administration
hoped to address the problem
through international arms control
negotiations aimed at undercutting
Iraq’s, and other developing
countries’, military capabilities by
denying access to further arms
technology, and banning chemical
weapons. The policy soon changed
as the U.S. began to see the
emergence of Iraq as a regional
power and a military threat to
American dominance in the Gulf.
(Michael T. Klare, “The U.S. Military
Faces South; Defense Policy In The
90s,” The Nation . 6/18/90) U.S.
domination began with the ending
of World War ft as it attempted to
control the region’s oil which Europe,
Japan, and the developing world
were dependent upon for their
economies. By controlling the
Middle East, the United States
attempted to control these oil
dependent nations. (WalterLaFeber,
America. Russia, and the Cold War

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Iraq’s regional aspirations
directly conflicted with the U.S. s
own imperial policies. As Geoffrey
Kemp of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace stated, “The

Oil War: the World vs. Iraq, tor international reace siaiea, me
Business Week. 8/20/90: Moberly, key issue is precisely the same as it
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regional aspirations which attracted United States does not wish to see

a major adversary control the assets
of the Gulf, whether it is the Russians
or the Iranians or now the Iraqis.”
(David Hoffman, “Iraq shatters gulf
peace, shakes world’s oil
importers,” Oakland Tribune. 8/3/
90) The Bush administration, then,
moved from negotiations to
confrontation with Traq to ensure
America’s continued power over the
region. (Robert S. Greenberger,
“UTS. T oughens Stance T owardTraq
To Pressure It to Halt Arms
Programs.” Wall St. Journal . 4/9/
90; Klare, l he Nation , b/18/90:
Donald Nett, "Nervousness in
Washington.” Middle East Report . 8/

Conflict with Iraq was
encompassed within the Pentagon’s
new military doctrine for the 1990s’,
“Mid-Intensity Conflict” (MIC). MIC is
defined as American combat with
major Third World powers, and has
come to replace the Soviet Union as
the rationale behind America’s
military industrial complex. (Klare,
The Nation . 6/18/90; Patrick E.
lyler. Pentagon’s Search For New
Role. S.F. Chronicle, 8/8/90) The
U.S. began this policy with Iraq by
imposing a number of economic
and military sanctions upon the
country in early 1990. As th e Wall
St. Journal reported, the Bush
administration set out in April 1990
to “tighten [the] economic screws”
on Iraq to stifle Baghdad’s power.
(Neff, Middle East Report . 8/3/90;
Greenberger. Wall St. Journal . 4/9/
90) Iraq s invasion ot Kuwait on
August 2,1990 only intensified this
on-going campaign of the U.S.’s
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Page 2

RACISM from Page 1 Col 1

misses is that racism in America
is multi-faceted.

In America, racism is
displayed in three ways:
individual, institutional, and
cultural. Individual racism is
the belief that an individual’s
race is superior to others.
Institutional racism are laws,
customs, and practices which
perpetrate racism, and cultural
racism holds one culture as
being superior to others. The
study of only the first of these
three forms of racism, manifest
through prejudice, is the typical
sociological approach to race
relations and is the pattern that
the Roper Organization follow¬
ed in its polling. What these
kinds of studies, and whites
generally, look for is overt forms
of racism as expressed through
people’s attitudes. This
overlooks the fact that racism
in America goes beyond just
the country’s citizens, but is a
characteristic of the society.
(David T. Wellman, Portraits of
White Racism . 1977, pp.4-5)
Thus, while the Roper poll can
find white attitudes towards
African Americans as
improving, the actual situation
of African Americans within the
overall society is not deal t with.

For example, although
more than half of those polled
said that conditions for African
Americans were excellent or
good, the fact that the gap
between African American and
white family incomes has
increased was not dealt with.
From 1980 to 1989 the
difference between average
African American and white
family incomes increased from
$13,251 to $14,586. Overall,
African American families were
only making 57 % of what white
families earned, down from a
peak of 65% in 1975. (Ben
Wattenberg, “The Society Woes
That Worn! Go Away/’ IIS.
News & World Report . 1/22/90;

Alphonso Pinkney. The Myth of
Black Progress . 1984, p.83) To
an organization such as Roper’s
these facts would not be
considered in a discussion of
racism since they are only
interested in the individual
prejudices of people. When one
considers some of the racism
African Americans face in
employment, however, the
disparity between white and
African American family
income takes on a new meaning.
Cases of these forms of racism
arc the fact that whites are paid
twice the amount African
Americans earn with
comparable training and
experience, African Americans
are twice as likely to be
unemployed as whiles, and
African Americans usually
occupy the lowest positions in
businesses. Thus, a character¬
istic of the American economy
is its institutional racism
towards African Americans.
(Pinkney, 1984, p.79)

Other such forms of
institutional and cultural
racism are prevalent through¬
out American society, and it is
these forms of racism that affect
African Americans, and other
people of color, the most. The
fact that sociologists, the Roper
poll, and the average white do
not consider these forms of
racism represents the mis¬
understandings America has
towards race relations. Looking
at individual behavior and
attitudes provides America
with only a partial under¬
standing of the racism that is
inherent within the country.
Until a wider view of the
problem is taken, white
America, and groups such as
the Roper Organization, will
continue to mistake lessening
in prejudice for progress, while
institutional ana cultural
impediments towards progress
for people of color in this
country will remain.

IRAQ from Page 2 Col 4

against Saddam Hussein.

President Bush’s first major
response to the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait was to order American
government agencies to. topple
President Saddam Hussein, from
power. According to the Washington
Post , the U.S.’s destabilization plan
Included strangling the economy,
fomenting discontent in the military,
and supporting resistance groups
inside and outside of the country.
(David Hoffman and Dan Balz, Bush
vows invasion to be reversed,
QaklandTribune . 8/6/90) Following
this policy, the United States
imposed a military blockade of Iraq,
led the fight in the u.N. for sweeping
sanctions against Iraq, pressured
Saudi Arabia to let American troops
land on its soil, attempted to garner
European and Arab support to
isolate Iraq, and rebuffed all peace
overtures by the Baghdad
government. (John J. FialRTa and’
Gerald F. Seib, “Naval Maneuver;
U.S., Allies Set Stage For Possible
Blockade of Iraq s Oil Outlets, Wall
St. Journal . 8/7/90; Gerald F Seif)
and Walter S. Mossberg, Taking a
Stand; U.S. Orders ForcesTo Arabia
and Turkey To Block the Iraqis,
Wall St. Journal . 8/8/90; Robin
Wright, bordeFplan will squeeze
Iraq” Oakland Tribun e, 8/14/90;
R.W. Apple Jr., ”U.S. Stealth fighters
will be sent to gulf, QaklandTribune
8/16/90; AP, “Iraqi savs U.S.
rebuffed parley.” Oakland Tribune ,
8/16/90; John Rossant, Stanley
Reed, Thomas . Goltz, Dough
Harbrecht, and Bill Javetski,. The
Vise Tightens On Iraq, Business
Week. 8/27/90).

The Administration s decision
dramatic escalation of the

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already tense situation in.the Gulf.
Yet, President Bush s choice could
be expected as the United States
has historically reverted to
confrontation and military actions in
times of crisis rather than negotiate
conflicts. The ease with which the
destabilization program was
implemented, however nas not been
met with desired results. ...

The U.S. destabilization
program was meant to topple the
Iraqi government in a short, period
of lime. Iraq was particularly
vulnerable to economic sanctions
as it is the most oil dependent
country in OPEC, with oil exports
providing 95% of the country s

the rise in political popularity of

Saddam Hussein in the Arab world,
and the realization that starving Iraq
into submission may not have the
desired effect as the country has
become accustomed to hardships
dueto the brutal Iran-lraqwar. (Robin
Wright, “Bush may find it difficult to
avoid war against Iraq,” Oakland
Tribune . 8/20/90; Rossant, Reed;
(ioltz, Harbrecht, and Javetski,
Business Week . 8/27/90) In the
end, the United States has only one
last option to turn to as if has
unilaterally raised the stakes in the
region, that being a full scale invasion
oflraq aimed at deposing President
Hussein and destroying Iraq’s army.

The possibility ofan American
invasion of Iraq has been in the
minds of U.S. military planners since
the first troops left for Saudi Arabia.
The offensive nature of the American
military presence can be seen in the
kinds of military hardware being
shipped to the Gulf. Stealth fighters,
for example, are offensive weapons
meant to penetrate a country’s radar
defenses and bomb targets. (Apple,
Oakland Tribune . 8/1 b/90) Other
signs ot this position have been
reports that American troops could
carry out offensive actions by August
20, and a Nightline report that the
Pentagon had made plans to take
Iraq within ten days of an order to
invade. (KGO-TV, 8/20/90;
Nightline . 8/21/90) As the
destabilization program faces more
and more problems, the
Administration will have fewer
options to turn to other than invading
Iraq as it has ruled out. any
negotiations that would maintain
Saddam Hussein in, power.
(Rossant, Reed, Goltz. Harbrecht
and Javetski. Business WeekL 8/27/
90) As Judith Kipper, a Mideast
specialist at the Brookings Institute
said, “It’s very obvious that the
administration is preparingfor war ”
(Wright, Oakland Tribune , 8/20/90)
President bush s decision to
topple Saddam Hussein from power
has little to do with moralism,
preventing an invasion, orthe narrow
interests of America’s oil companies.
Rather, the effort has been aimed at
preserving the United States’s
position as the dominant power
within the Middle East and the sole
superpower in the world. James R.

"tmbargo cuttini
'supply to Iraq’’ Sanjose
' News . 8/^/9 0^ The

Mercury News

embargo, however, has had an
adverse effect upon the West, equal
to the effect upon Iraq. The cut off
of 20% of the world’s oil has already
begun to be felt, in Western nations
as oil and gas prices have continued
to rise and stock markets have
plummeted, threatening a. world
recession. The extent to which the
sanctions should.be enforced has
also created divisions within the
NATO alliance. Other unforeseen
consequences of the U.S.’s actions
have been Iraq’s taking of hostages,

forward in this affair [the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait], and whether the
U.S. will lead in tne post-cold-war
era will depend on its performance.”
(Javetski, Borrus. Harbrecht. Payne,
Rossant, Reed, Business Week, 8/
20/90) Whether the United States
can emerge with its power and
prestige intact after a war with the
one million man Iraqi army and a
world recession driven by high oil
prices, however, places doubts in
the minds of many. The fact that

Americans and Iraqis killed in a war
between the two countries over the
maintenance of one country’s
aspitations of power over another s.

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TWO MILLION B.C. TWO MILLION B.C.

The Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror

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Hi there, Well, 1 promised Tim to write this
in August 1989, and at this moment it’s July
1990, so.... Anyway, this report is gonna be
about what’s going on in the little area of
Amsterdam. But first of all a big hello to Michael
Kopijn who informs all MRR readers every now
and then about the Northern Dutch scene (too
bad that the WNC squat is evicted!). The big thing
happening in Amsterdam right now is RADIO
PATAPOETa new radio station that’s been on the
air now for about a year. They feature hardcore/
punk shows, but also house shows, gay shows,
political stuff, rock’n’roll (no, not MRR) and
more. It’s an illegal station, and this means that
they could be busted. If you want to support
them, bands send demos and other radiostations/
shows send a letter and you will receive a
newsletter/information: RADIO PATAPOE/ PO
Box 3369/ 1001 AD Amsterdam, Holland. After
a period of hardly no activity it’s pretty interest¬
ing that there are finally some hard working
bands in Amsterdam.

BISTRAY is the band in which I also play,
and they’ve just recorded a 7", and it came out
pretty cool. It’s supposed to be released some¬
where in August/September on the German
Crucial Response Records (check some of vour
older MRRs). They play up to mid-tempo hardcore
with some unexpected melodic pieces in the
songs. BETRAY is gonna do some live shows
after the release of their 7", so try to catch ‘cm if
you can. BETRAY/ PO'Box 26286/ 1002 GF
Amsterdam, Holland.

The NRA (NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIA¬
TION) just formed a couple of months ago, and
they play straightforward uptempo hardcore,
and especiallv their vocalist adds a lot to the
music with a kind of Danzig (from the early era)
vocals. They’re a kind of all star band with ex¬
members from a the late local band BODYCOUNT
and another band from way back called LOUD
WARNING. The NRA c/o Aziz Badrane/ Jacob
van Lennepstraat 237a/ 1053 JD Amsterdam,
Holland.

The coolest new band around with mem¬
bers from Amsterdam and Haarlem (10 miles
from Amsterdam) is definitely KAILAKAGAN (the
name is from an old Turkish legend about the
donkey Karakagan, which represents the op¬
pressed and the exploited). They have an explo¬
sive live act, especially their vocalist Thomas,
who is a complete madman and he’s even worse
on a stage. Tliey play very fast hardcore (it’s no
trash, but they re on the edge) with incredible
cool mosh parts in between. The lyrics are socio¬
political aware as the name of the band already
explains. Check ‘cm out at KARAKAGAN c/o To
and Di/ Madurastraat 52 (1 hoog)/ 1094 GP
Amsterdam, Holland.

A little bit longer existing is YAWP, with
(cx-)members of the Amsterdam DEADLOCK
(yes, the one from the P.E.A.C.E. compilation),
GEPOPEL and FUNERAL ORATION. They re¬
cently kicked out their former singer and the
band improved a lot. They have a very melodic
style (early RE PLACEMENTS, ALL) with mid-
and uptempo songs with sometimes the vocals of
the female keyboard player Sandra, or from
I lerrie, their guitarist (I like them a lot nowadays).
Tliey have a demo tape recorded which you
probably can order at their address. Also a band
that just as KARAKAGAN should get a chance to
record a 7" or an album. We definitely lack a
Dutch active record label (yeah, I know, we have
some active labels like the Konkurrcnt and

LMOOR), ‘cos not all bands are able to put out a
record by themselves. So labels that are inter¬
ested in doing one of the forementioned bands,
get in touch with the bands. YAWP c/o Herrie
Hubert/ 2e Sweelinckstraat 5 (2 hoog)/ 1073 EG
Amsterdam, Holland.

Speaking of FUNERAL ORATION, these
old dudes are still together. At the same time as
their last 7“ The More We Know was released on
the English LOONEY TUNES label, about six
months ago, they recorded an album that still
isn’t released ‘till now. I wonder if they already
have a label to release it. Funeral Oration/ PO
Box 8887/ 1006 JB Amsterdam, Holland. The
last band from Amsterdam is 52 GIRLS (4/5 of
the late MUCKRAKERS). who’ve just started,
and they’ve only two songs. A band that is trying
to put out their own record is the hardworking
band COURAGE from Haarlem. They had some
bad luck in the past, ‘cos in November ’89 they
recorded their split album called One Dream
(together with a band called CONTAGIOUS
DISEASE), but since it was their first effort to put
something on vinyl, they had some trouble get¬
ting it pressed. To make a very long story a little
bit shorter: The pressing plant cheated them,
and now they only have totally fucked up al¬
bums. A lawsuit is in the works, but the band is
heavily depressed (cheer up, guys!). They play
melodic, slow hardcore in the vein of MAR1GINAL
MAN, with personal and socially aware lyrics
and since tneir last recording session they’ve
already written a couple of new songs, and
they’re
weeks.

out soon. _

Sven/ B.V. Zuylenlaan 12/ 2104 SR Haarlem,
Holland.

Also from Haarlem is BRUTAL OBSCEN¬
ITY, a metal band with really cool lyrics and a
cool attitude (apparently metal bands like this

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exist as an exception). They just lost their vocal¬
ist, who decided to quit the band. They have
recorded their second album called Dream Out
Loud with an unbelieveable cover (it’s so fucking
awesome), and it’s really cool music especially
for a metal band with hardcore songs on it like
‘United against Rapists’ and metal pieces like
'Strengthlo Smile’. Before their singer Kees will
leave the band (somewhere in September) the
band will record a live album, which should
come out pretty cool.

A little bit further away from Amsterdam,
in the Utrecht/Amersfoort area are two very
interesting bands. First of all the almighty
PROFOUND (famous from their 7" Integrity) , who
recently changed their name to MAN LIFTING
BANNER. They also added a second guitarist
called Big (no, he’s only something like 5*2), and
I must say that the new songs are way better then
what they did before, so if you liked their 7", look
out for new vinyl in the future (I hope they're
gonna record soon), MAN LIFTING BANNER c/o
Michiel Bakker/ IBB laan 21 (2 hoog)/ 3582 VD
Utrecht, Holland. The other band from that area
is SEEIN’ RED, and of course you all know their
7", or their song on the HIPPYCORE Earth First
sampler. Well they just recorded a complete
album, which should be remixed at the time I’m
typing this, and it should be released somewhere
in September 1990, with a booklet. Their music
is consists of solid hardcore with very political
and socially aware lvrics. The album is gonna be
released on the JURA label and should be well
available in Europe, and in the U.S. probably
thru BLACKLIST. SEEIN’RED c/0 Paul and Olav
van den Berg/ Randwijcklaan 115c/ 3814 AH
Amersfoort, Holland.

As far as Amsterdam is concerned, almost
all the squatted concert halls are gone. There is
only one left called Vrankrijk, anathey don’t do
too many gigs, and it’s very small (if there are 500
people, the place is overcrowded like hell). So
most gigs take place in the bigger venues, which
has both advantages (better PA, less fights) but
also a lot of disadvantages (higher door prices,
less control). Hopefully by the time you read this
Revelation Records Europe will be in effect, so all
Europeans can get at least those records cheaper
and quicker (lookout for ads). Revelation Eu¬
rope/PO Box 26286/ 1002 GF Amsterdam.

Well, this is it lor this time, look out for a
Radio Patapoe article later in MRR, and don’t
forget, we have nice things here in Europe, like
for instance the fanzines Vengeance from Ger¬
many (very cool, Vengeance/ Parsevalstr. 67/
4330 Mulheim/Ruhr, west Germany), Connec¬
tion X from Holland (Connection X/ Op dc Knip
134/~6467 GX Kcrkradc West, Holland), and
Lucky Thirteen (also from Holland, with a in¬

credible FUGAZI poster, so get that goodie, Lucky
Thirteen/ Zanahovenstraat 10/ 5628 RM
Eindhoven, Holland). If you write with one of the
bands, please enclose an IRC if possible, for a
guarantueed reply. Thanks for your time, sorry
to everyone that should be mentioned in this
report but isn’t in it. Take care, Marc.

P.S. Anybody that can get me a Domino’s Pizza
baseball cap in good condition please write me:
Marc/ Loenermark 867/ 1025 VP Amsterdam,
Holland.

Welcome to France I Herr Sang comes back
after many adventures!

The situation in France changes often.
Politically it’s a strange situation where the
politician “socialist’’ men in the government try
to keep their place and the right politicians tiy to
take this place. People don’t believe in them
because they see the real situation every day:
2,500,000 people without Jobs, a growing of the
racism acts, ofthe violence in the suburbs, of the
suicidal tendencies among the youth, etc...

We have some black gangs in suburbs,
who try to be “like amerlcangangs." But here no
guns, no M-16s. It’s not tne same situation.
Perhaps these guys like Public Enemy, rap mu¬
sic and try to show that a “black man is also a
man" — that’s good, but luckily, we have not the
same problems like USA with drugs, cracks,
streetfighting gangs, etc. But there are some
problems with violence between young gangs
(rape for example), a black man was Wiled in
subway, and in Cergy, suburb city, a big battle
between 90 kids. It’s enough for the newspapers
try to organize a false campaign against youth
one more time! But all these “Zulus Kids want
mainly to right racist people and show that
black, yellow, arable or white kids are equal.
Zulus have ejected racist sWns in Paris and
suburbs steets. Today, a nazi skin cannot walk
alone in the streets with skinhead, boots or
fascist buttons. And in some suburbs they can¬
not no more at 10 or 20. Quickly zulus attack
them. We havejust few nazi skins, but thousands
of zulus kids are always in the suburbs. The
result of the battle is clear: Nazi skins cannot
take the power in streets; they can only commit
some isolated actions, like in Carpenfras cem¬
etery where they are suspected to nave raped a
Jew dead with a stick. Cra 2 y spirits of stupid
guys!

More dangerous is the organized fascist
movement like Front National of Jean Marie Le
Pen. because they organize their movement on
true fear of people. All people who don’t believe
in government or opposition parties and who
have problems (work, housing, violence, rela¬
tionship) are ready to follow all kinds of oppor¬
tunist language. People want to change the
situation. And actually, on left, nothing, dust a
communist party following Moscow with diffi¬
culty between stalinlsm, gorbachevism, nation¬
alism. etc. And “socialist" government with many
swindle affairs (financial, political, etc...The last
affair is a gun traffic by policemen between
Beruit, Lebanon and France. 12 French police¬
men in Jail, guns for serioug gangs, etc.).

Its dangerous because wnen you have
nothing to believe, you can chose stupid ways.
And Front National is particularly a stupid and
dangerous way. To fight it. we must separate real
fascist leaders from manipulated people, politi¬
cians manipulation from real problems,
f 1 Well, well, in the indie scene there are
many fights also. In the press, the adventure of
Sub Rock is finished. It was a monthly printed at
30,000 copies and who tried to conjure profes¬
sional making and indie spirit. Four issues and
problems arrive: stupid yuppie editor in chlelf
Karim Khaznadar wanted a more commercial
slant and used fascist methods to govern. In
May, he elected indie Journalists, redaction fol¬
lows and Sub Rock might stop, without Joumal-
istsl This stupid yuppie wants to create a com¬

mercial magazine in October on iashion clothes.
On their side. Journalists of Sub Rock have
created their rock magazine called New Wave, like
the old fanzine created in France in June 1980.
For the 1 Oth anniversary of NewWave, the fanzine
comes back, different because of the new people,
new situation, new tendencies, but only the
same basis: indie and alternative rock culture.
To promote your activities, write to NewWave /
B.P. N°6/ 75462 Paris Cedex 10. 40 pages.
10,000 copies monthly.

Many other good fanzines exist: Rock Hardi
in Clermont Ferrand (Rock Hardi / B.P. 94/63404
Chamalieres Cedex). Wake Up . Eruptive Hardcore
in Dijon), M-Extaz (suburb of Paris). On a Faim
(Rouen). Phantasm (Lyon), Kontag ion and oth-
ers.

New indie shops: Le Silence de la Rue/ 8
rue de la Fontaine du but/ 75018 Paris. It’s also
a label (with bands like LES PARALLELES DE
MONTSEGUR: punk, one LP and one single; LES
BRIGADES DUSEXE: funpunk. one LPfUnder-
ground Vol. 2 tape: French hardcore punk sam¬
pler; MASKED RAIDERS LP: and 7": British
metal with Peter from Peter and the Test Tube
Babies; les HEROICS LP and 7”: French punk
with female singer Nora; etc... Without forgetting
LES INVENDABLES created by ancient
GARQONS BOUCHERS guitarist BLANK, three
7",) I x Silence de la Rue is also a distributor,

News from labels: Alternative Noise - for
September, a single of Mental Disturbance,
hardcore from Belgium; a 12’’ of SOUR1RE
KABYLE, French political band, punk, reggae
from Lyon. Jungle Hop - they work now with
major company Musicdisc. Hope that they don’t
lost their soul. They created a label called Viru¬
lence. Projects: DEATH POWER V and LP. French
metal band; LETHAL AGGRESSION 7"; PIRA¬
NHAS LP, French Ramones style. Last record:
PIRANHAS 7”. Auto Dafe Records - 1st LP od
COSMIC WURST, fun hardcore. Soon a sampler

BOINIC 12"EP

Hannovers latest HC-Outfit pre¬
sents its 1st vinyl. 4 tracks
only, but the cover and the sound
is worth the money! 1st 500 in
green wx! US-$ 8 ppd .

WUT / SONS OF SADISM LP
A kind of recycled material album,
but it is worth the money! Two
of the best German HC-bands present
their now exclusive stuff on this
album, the recordings dated from
1984-1986. Incl. S.O.S. 6 song
7"EP and 4 bonus live cuts.

Also limited edition 1000 copies
in multi-coloured wax. US-$ 12

COLLAPS new 7"EP

3 brand new songs on this EP en¬
titled "Who burned the bridge
to Hollywood”. 14 minutes of great
HC and Crossover with lots of
melodies and hooks. Get it now!

... us-1

FLEXX 7"

A new German band presents their

1st 2 songs on vinyl. It is a
mix of HC and Hardrock and if
you like all that SUB-POP stuff,
then this is a must for you!

Also on col. wax. . . . US-$ 5 ppd.

GOING NOWHERE SLOW

5 YEARS DOUBLE A

A dokument of 5 years underground
music and activities, mainly HC
and 1 song each of the 17 bands.
You will hear such GOODIES like
Marginal Man * Instigators * SOS

* Angry Red Planet * Detonators

* Stengte Dorer * Collaps * and
plenty more. Inclusive a large
booklet with stuff in English
as well as in German. Limited
edition of 1500 copies in 2 col.
wax, so it cost you just US-$
12 ppd by air .

Who's working like
a dog here?

From left to right:
Your's faithfully,+
Barney ♦ Gary (Pro¬
blem Children) and
Bruce ♦ Juan of the
Detonators. Aalborg
Denmark, April 27th
1989 (shit van!)

That's all the brand new stuff released on Double A exclusively.
Before you order directly or resign totally, try BLACKLIST OR TOXIC
SHOCK mail orders.

I> TSTR X 3UTORS: Double A ha s more to offer! Even some U.S.
stuff like that MARGINAL "Double ^age" album, ANGRY

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OVERSEAS CONNECTION VOL.2:

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V/. Germany

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IMPLOSION and RADIATION SICKNESS. Soon
two new singles, always in the thrash vein. Rad
Card Records - NOMED Live? 7", French
thrashmetal.

We have many new labels actually, soon in
Paris (single of Italian straight-edge band for
December) . For example. The Crab Song in Paris,
irst single: False Face. British straf
and. Soon, The Cause. American strai

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edge band from Belgium. Straight-edge seems to
develop a kind of answer to metal invasion. But
ake care not to create a new fashion attitude
>ecause sometimes straight-edge seems too na¬
tionalist, clean and “good boy ideology." Some¬
times I prefer a more marginal attitude and more
aggressive attitude against the system. Remem¬
ber Dead Kennedys. MC5, Jefferson Airplane.
Black Flag, etc. And try to see if your straight-
dge attitude is really a positive attitude or a
ositive thinking....

Some new bands here: FILTHY CHARITY.

ubPop style project of single; BIGOUDEN SIS¬
TERS. powerful hardcore; ANGEL POWDER,
etal; PROTON BURST, 5-song tape. (Reni
auener/ 7 allee de la grande promenade/ 78170
La Celle Saint Cloud); ANCALAGON. metal; AS¬
PIDISTRA, hardcore (LP in the autumn); HOAX I
(created by old singer of Trotskids), an LP soon
n Musidisc; 8 FORCES (old ONCLE SLAM);
OISE AND DECKER, thrashcore from Le Havre,
nd each day new bands on thrash and metal
scenes. All the "hardrock" kids follow the thrash-
netai scene now. Don’t forget that the main!
endenev in France has always been the hardrock
usic. It's a tradition. So it’s interesting that thi s
ardrock mentality moves in thrash-metal ten-
ency. It’s not the solution, but it’s better. Well,
also have some good hardrock bands like
kNKY PANKY (one LP). VULCAIN (music more
hrash because they have taken a young guitar-
st).

• Ok. If you want some records, fanzines,
ddresses, or information, write me — I can help
ou. We are often overflowed by problems and
fork. Don t be afraid; we always find the solu-1
ion, it’s only a question of patience. And don’t
esitate to write ys if there is a problem some-
..here.

One address: A.P.M.C./ B.P. N°6/ 75462
Paris Cedex 10. And welcome in Europe to
destroy the other walls that are the sectarism.
the stupidity, the business and the individual-

Hello! Greetings from Poland!

I have read tne Polish report by Arek
Marczyriski in MRR #77. And I must write some
more information about our musical scene. Arek
has written only about popular bands, but in
Poland there are other groups, also.

For the beginning, my band, HACESJA -
we play music like Infest and Satanic Malfunc¬
tions in one pail. We play from January ’80 and

we have recorded some rehearsals. If anybody is
interested, write me!

SEPARATOR - they recorded a demo tape
called “Another Messiah with one Napalm Death
cover. Typical grindcore, not bad. One of their
new plans is to record the new stuff like Septic
Death with Agathocles. You can write to: Mariusz
Wojok/ul.Matejki 12c/45/ 72-600 Swinoujscie,

MORTUARY - they have the tape called
“Poplin” and this stuff is like English grindcore
styfe. FRONT TERROR - very good grindcore
group. If you want I can record for any people
their first and second demo and live but I think
would be better if you’ll write to very good friend
from F.T.: Stawek Cywoniuk/ ul.Palacowa 4/
42/ 15-064 Biakystok, Poland. Unfortunately
F.T. are broken up but 2 friends (Doruiu and
Stowek) decided to form new band called NE¬
CROSIS. This music is like Carcass, Morbid
Angel, Pungent Stench, etc.

Faster than Napalm Death, STIGMATIZER
- is from the same town like F.T. and they are all
good friends. Their music is really influenced by
English grindcore groups. SCI IISMOPATIC - have
you heard second side of first LP Scum by Na¬
palm Death? This is same music like demo bv
SCHISMOPATIC "Kharkharamaphatic
Regurgitator.” Great music, good sound and
good recording. The address is Robert Gula/ PO

Gangrenia

Box 2/ 44-119 Gliwice, Poland.

Another band is ABHORRENCE - from
industrial town. Took. If you like Sound Pollu¬
tion with Sore Throat, ABHOItRENCE should be
one of your favc bands. You can write: Woitek
Krawczyk/ ul. Wici 68/22/ 31-157 Kodz, Po¬
land.

STRAWBERRY - really great music. They
have recorded demo and this is music I’ve never
heard before in Poland. There are many influ¬
ences from Cryptic Slaughter. This music is
rather fast thrashcore than grind. Very good
lyrics. Other good things is that the vocalist is
singing otherwise that all grindcore groups.

HIDEOUS CHAOS - in my opinion this is
the best Polish grindcore band. Tney are from
Eastern Poland. flC have recorded first demo in
’88 and this is the best demo in Poland. This is
so good, fast, sharp, technical... Their second
demo isn’t so good, more influences from Na¬
palm Death, typical grindcore. Address: Dariusz
Chlcbowicz/ul.E. Plater 6/48/ 16-010 Wasilkow,
Poland.

The last band is NUCLEAR DEATH - they’re
from Silesia and they play grind-death core.

I’m sure you are thinking that in Poland
there are only grindcore noise bands. No! You’re
wrong, although Poland is the land of grindcore.
maybe... (especially lately). Some other bands
arc: APATLA - from my town. They play on ashes
of H.C.P. They are playing crossover of

Hacesja

edgers. SECOND SIDE - I don’t know why°im
writing of them... maybe because Audrej is my
friend. S.S. play deathmetal, rather not so inter¬
esting. Ifyou want write to: Andrzey Branski/ ul.
Piastouska 13 B/33/ 15-20+ Bialystok, Poland.

NEUROLEPROSY - first band in Poland
who play music like Doom and Discharge with
some Discharge covers.

A.P.S.F. - not bad, ’77 style punk with
some hardcore parts. Good. Write to: Andrzey
Makara/ ul.Itackawicka M/47/ 21 -040 Swidnik,
Poland.

GANGRENA - HC punk from Silesia. The
address is: Bogdan Janota/ ul.Batalionow 17/
43-331, Kaniow, Poland.

S.K.T.C. - HC in American style. ULICA -
punk with trumpet, but not too interesting.

And now some words about fanzines.
D udek - this is a zine made by my girlfriend
Ankc. Good. Address: Anke Lubinska/ os. Czecha
14/10/ 61-280 Poznan, Poland.

An,MM 7 n r - cn R re ^- ^ llis is zine by friends from
APAIIA band. Info about HC scenes and planet’s
problems. Address: Tomasz Matykiak/ os.Kraiu
Rad 35/158/ Poznan, Poland.

Other zines: Stoneczko - address: Grzegorz
Zadura/ ul.nroblewskiego 17/76/ 24-100
Pulawy, Poland; Burzvciel - (address like
Gangrcna band); Uoda - (old name: Ice Aite) -
Scweryn Fleisher/ ul.Sokota 12 A/4/ 41-302
Bvtom, Poland; C.O.R, - good zine from Silesia.
™ s £uy also made zine called Flabby. Address:
Wojtek Kuspik/ ul. Chrobrego 12/ 41-106
Sicmianouice SI, Poland; V Kolumna - Darek
Tkaczyk/ ul. Micdzvblokdwa 14A/10/ 41-706
Ruda SL6, Poland; Zakazanv Owoc - best Polish
comix zine. Ifyou read Polish you can read really
funny and great comix. Write to: Rote Palusinski/
M.Reja 36/1 / 20-458 Lublin. Poland.

Ifyou haven’t money write to my friends in
USA - for more info about Poland write to Jim
Teste/ 151 First Ave/ Box A/ NY. NY 10003 USA.

For more Polish HC/punk music write to:

Dave/ PO Box 2143/ Stow, OH 44224 USA.

If you have money... write to Poland to me
>re info and stuff to trade. My address is
Szulc/ os.Lecha 20/6/ 61-293 Poznan,

for more
Adam Szulc/ os.Lecha 20/6/
Poland. Write soon and bye!

Hello allyou MRRreaders out there, ljooiiz
of “Death For Profit" productions here to tell you
some things about our underground scene and
culture, fu menUon the most active bands,
fanzines, collectives, gigs and altemative/tndie
distribution labels,..

As in any other countries in this sad world,
government, political parties, police, army really
sucks... so a big “Fuck" to ’em from us. Let s talk
about our big Mexican scene.

Hardcore, punk and thrash ideologies have
ow strong roots at any of the states ofMexican
Republic... yeah! The punk radicalist disease is
resent in every place in this big and sad coun-
ry. Our movement has been relatively limited
ue to several reasons such as the state re¬
gression/ police brutality and lucked up govern¬
ment. It is still very difficult to release a record.
Nowadays, some bands put out self-produced
ecords. The existence of support from some
rganizatlon for it is totally “zero, so the bands

dllU VUiyiai mt; utuiuuu utwvion *- ***

indie record label in our country. And it s so
difficult to put vinyl out, because our low economy
and scarcity, crisis and upcoming problems
because of the big grade of corruption on gov-
emment/army/police and all of society. Life is
hard in our country because wage payment is
the lowest of all history but real punk idealist
people still fight and work hard as hell to put
they’re message across.

At Ensenada Baja. CA - Mexico (a small
town in the North where “Death For Profit is
based). the scene is growing every single daywith
gigs at very underground places. First band
called SENTENCIA now have a studio demo
available from “Death For Profit", this band plays
fast punk/thrash. Other bands active at this
town are: PARAL1SIS NUCLEAR, SEPULCRO
SOCIAL, SACRIFICIO. “Death For Profit* will
start to organize biggigs with bands from Tijuana,
Mexicali, ilermoslIK) and U.S.A. at Ensenada
very soon to support local bands. The most

music is last and very melodic and rhythmic. We
lsed to have gigs at a skatepark in Tijuana or at
.lightshow theatre Iguanas where we saw bands
like Ramones, Nuclear Assault, D.R.I., Bad
Brains, M.D.C.. Exodus. Bad Religion. Kreator.
Coroner and lots more. Other good punk/HC
bands exist here at this fast-living town Wee
SPECIMEN, ARMAGGEDON, BLACK MARKET.
Demos from these bands are available from
“Death For Profit". Here in Tijuana exist some
publications: the most active zine is Almetzi eer
which covers local/national and international
scenes, available from “D.F.P."

Mexicali: it’s a hot city on the border with
the U.S. like Tijuana. In this strange land the
scene is small but very active with bands like
RE ACC ION CADENA. DESGARRE SOCIAL.
AUTO DESTRUCCION and other new bands.
Some publications exist like Nuestra Realidad
and Asco Social . If you’re interested in getting
their demos and fanzines contact “Dealh For
Profit". . , ... e .

Sonora is a big state in the middle of the
Mexican desert. Here the people are nice and
active. The scene is big at this place with lots oi
bands like DKMOCRACIA REAL,
PUTREFACCION JUVEN1L. SOCIEDAD
DESCRIMINADA, LOS 3 COCHINITOSY EL
SYSTEMAFEROS. ESTUPIDES CRONICA, RYP.
ATAKE SOCIAL. S.D.M., ABORTO ZOOCIAL.
MENTES IBMECILES and lots more radical
punk/HC/thrash bands. In this place punks are
very united and organized, they have a collective
too. Publications exist, most of ’em very punk
rock, you know what I mean, they don t give a
damn about if it looks beautiful. They only care
about the information in it. Most active fanzines
are D'ctnem c/o Body Wong/ Pedro Negrete
# 1338 Sur/ Col. Sochlloa. CP:85150. Ciudad
Obregon/ Sonora. Mexico. Sin Pals c/o Mario
Vega Valdez/ Luis Monzon #310/Col. Xochiloa.
CP:85150/ Ciudad Obregon. Sonora. Ruld gJ
Rabla c/o Lalo C. Gafias? Calle 11/ Ave. 12-
no62/ CP:85400. Guaymas, Sonora. P Y . / l

n n T? - /« / PaVinrru / Yaniil

jut there, stop ordering issue #1. because it isj
now totally sold out! „ j w J

Now let’s talk about Tijuana, Baja. Mexico,
fhis big city in the north of our country was the
[irst town in Mexico where punk existed I think
12 or 13 years ago and is the hometown of the
best and most powerful band in our country
SOLUCION MORTAL. This band is the main
influence of all Mexican HC. thrash and punk
bands. They are the most experienced band,
because they used to play with big bands like
DK's, Black Flag. English Dogs. Kaw Power.
B.G.K.. Testament. Annihllator and many more.
Most of the HC/thrash gigs at this fast living
town are organized by the lead singer of the
Mexican response to D.R.I. suckers
band’s name Is TURBULENCIA KAOT1CA. Their

V rnciju. vi .uativ/ — —

rhere are lots more zines around this place, you
can write those and ask ’em about complete
details on the scene and new Issues. Always, you
can write to “D.F.P,“ for all these band demos
and fanzines too. . , , . .

Now, Ill tell you about Guadalajara which
is a big city called “The Pearl of the West", Here
exists one of the raddest bands called SEDICION.
The band has an LP out called Kxtlnt os. lfypu
will like to get a copy write to us at D.F.P.
Another active band more on the speed/thras
metallic way is DRAKSSEN which have a good
demo available from “D.F.P.". If you like to
contact Carlos A Mendina/ Salado Alvarez #371 /
Col. Hidalgo Sp/ Tiaquepaque, Jal, Mexico.

NEUROSIS, one of the most active bands
in this big city, at the moment have 2 demos and
are trying to release vinyl very soon. Write to:
Juan C Suarez/ Jaime Nuno #906/ Sector
Hidalgo. Guadalajara/Jal, Mexico. Other bands
ejeist here but most of them play in a metallic

W3V

The active HC/thrash/speed mag Is Mwbid

c/o Julio C. Escobedo/ Apdo 1-654/ CP; 44100
Guadalajara/ Jal. Mexico. Another active zine is
Cheerz . put out by Laura Morales. Write her at
Ninos Heroes Sur355/ CP: 45500. Tiaquepaque.
Jal, Mexico. ■ '• , ..

San Luis Potosi is another state of the
Mexican Republic where thepunk/HC/a^edcorc
disease is present, with bands like DIsTURBIO
CLANDESTINO. SUICIDIO MASIVO. NEUROTIC
PUNK. ARSENAL DEATH, WAR CROW.
ARMAGEDON. Here you can find publications
like ArghhhU. Intense Mutilation , Ruido Sin

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buy it from “D.F.P.” or write to them at: Rogelio
Reyes Sanchez/ 1 de Mayo N°100/ Col. Urudad
Hab. Fidel Velazquez/ Ciudad Ramos Arizpc.
Coahuila. CP: 25^00, Mexico. Other bands in
this area are AR KANHELL. who play metallic HC
and have a demo from D.F.P. Other bands in¬
clude PROPHECY. SEPULCRO. HELL-SOCIETY
and ANARCHY ATTACK. For more info, write to:
Mutilator/ Oscar de la Pena/ Av Pilares 295/
Fracc. Santiago/ Coahuila CP 25240, Mexico.

Well how about the scene at Puebla.
Mexico? In this weird town you can see bangers/
thrashers/punkers and skaters too... About
bands, most of ’em play fast metal and of course
some lic/thrash too... Bands are: MORGUE,
AGUELARRE. METRALLER. There’s a skin col
lective in this town and fanzines such as D>bo
Fcroz. Rockln V.A.P.. and LaEsquiiia . If you need
to know more about this weird place, write to
Bernabe Glez. T./Prlv. Brazil 2252-101/Fracc:
Las iladas. Puebla, Puebla, Mexico CP72070.

Now is time to talk about the biggest city.
Mexico City, where more than 20 million people
live and fight to survive. Well, the scene here is
big as helL with lots of collectives, bands, zines
etc. We’ll start with bands first. The biggest and
best-known band Is MASSAC RE 68 which finally
have their own vinyl LP out now, available from
Death for Profit. The band have two demos too.
If you’d like, write directly to Miguel A. Cortez O. /
Apdo 17-808/ CP 11410/ Mexico, D.F. Miguel
runs the best known fanzine down there, PPR
(Pure Fucking Noise), distributed by Death for
Ihrofit. He Said he’s trying to create a fanzine like
MRR. Another well known band is XENOFOBIA
with a 7 ’EP and a new LP self-produced on PPR
records. If you’d like to contact them, write to
Raul Varela/ Av. de las Flores M. 2A L.A./ Col.
Juan Gonzales R./ CP 07410/ Mexico D.F.
Other good bands are HISTERIA. M.E.L.I..T.N.T.
RESICTENCIA ENTRE EL PODER (REP). 2 (
REGIMIENTO, ANTI-GOB1ERNO, DECADENCIA.
ANARCI IOShave a 7" EPout nowand two demos
available from DFP. There’s SUICIDIO JUVENIL
and SICOSIS and lots more new bands, all of ’em
with a strong and punkcr ideology that will hit
everybody’s mind very soon.

Now let me tell you about underground
publications. The most active, like I said before,
is PPR. Otehr good zines are Armageddon . Nues*“
Generacion. Escoria. Caramelo. Crypta;

(records, tapes, zines etc.) with lots of new rare
Mexican and foreign stuff. If you need heir
J istributingyour art in Mexico, feel free to send
xamples of your art and wholesale prices. I also
on a fanzine dedicated to supporting honest
ands. labels, zines, anarchist groups, animal]
rters, ecology groups, etc,, so Teel free to;
hotos and material for use in our zine.

__ comment : if you write to us for info.

lease do not forget to enclose help for postage,
tor “Death for Profit" c/o Alejandro Boonz
iguez/Fracc: Costa Bella #923/ Ave: B/
nsenada, B.C., Mexico

on mis scene you can write ™iwuiwv/
Jose de Jesus Salazar/ Hde 2. CaUe 4^yPriv.!
lia/ Col. BeUavista. CP Valles, SUP/ CP;
*0. Mexico, • • .

For Info on Monterrey, Nuevo Leonscene.
ands, and zines, write to Mexicore c/o Miguel
el Valladares/ Ando Postal 1879/ CP: 64000,

ngel Valladares/ Apdo Postal 1879/ CP: 64000.
Monterrey/NL, Mexico. ' • ,

For info on Leon. Gto, scene, bands, and
es, write to Hellrazer c/o Armando Gomez/
pdo Postal 1578/Leon, Gto. Mexico.

Now let me tell you about the small scene
of Coahuila. Here, the scene and underground
subculture is totally new with bands like
vERGlA, who have a demo called BatasJJe
udad. If you’d like to get this demo, you can

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when I read Dave McIntyre’s one (MRR June
1990). I hope he’s still in Montreal and reading
this to know more about Quebec’s French-
speaking scene. First, a bit of History for those of
you who might be puzzled by the Fact that the
stuff I’ll be talking about is all in French: close to
80% of Quebec’s population are descendants of
the French settlers who colonised the territory in
the XVIIth century. The English-speaking Que-
becois count for about 12% and Pirst Nations
2%. Ethnic communities count for about 5%.
Now, that makes 99%. The remaining 1% must
have been out of their minds when the Census
people knocked at the door! Anyways, on this
report:

These days, the scene is quite active. The
compilation loaches Lousses Voi. 1 LP on Carg

diversity that i_

dedicated to the memory of Kim Shadow, the late
leader of the psycho-garage band THE MONGOLS
whose song *Bebe Cadavre” is a blasting opener.
Most interesting i 1 A 41

lyrics are printed

(the design put_,,_ _

Nevertheless, it gives an opportunity to talk
about some of the bands appearing on the record:

From Quebec City: CAMELCLUTCH -N.Y.
Dolls/Stooges/Stones impersonators, they are
one of the strongest bands in Quebec at the
present time. They released a 7" last year (which
was too weak for my taste) and a live tape on
Ondes de choc which gives the full magnitude of
their force. They toured France this summer (the
French though they sounded too American!) and
will be recording an album later this year. (Pro¬
ductions Camel Clutch/ 361, 5e rue App. # B/
Quebec City. PQ, GIL 2R8). LES BIBERONS
BATIS, a one-man-dub/experimental band
iroduced two cassettes Attabovl On Agonise and
ittaboy! On meurt , (which are now collector items
!) consisting mostly of collage of monologues and
strange considerations on music. Absolutely
weirdi The best way to contact the band is via the
Vinyl record store (Les Importations Vinvl/ 664
St-Jean St./ Quebec City, PQ,

GLOP! GLOP! (from Vai

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G1R1P8).
/arennes): garage/
psychedelia. They are new to me. Apparently,
they wrote a rock opera (reminds me of another
band, I don’t know who...) and are planning a
single later this fall. Very entertaining on stage!
REX: all but one of the original members of this
punk/fun band were sacKed lately, so there’s
not much point of saying anything except that
they had a demo which they forgot to bring to
their only gig I saw. Their song ‘‘Zorro’’ rates abig
10 !.

LES TACHES describe their sound as al¬
ter native-kitch or hardCow. They have a 7" and
an album out called Quo si and toured in France
this summer. Whirlwind live shows !

AMNESIE: politico-punk a la CLASH. They
released a cassette Rien de neuf and their first
one is still available. They give strong stage
performance. They also publish the monthly
info-sheet S.F.M.R. which serves as a contact
base for the independant scene both here and
Europe, (a/s Linda or Claude/ 2675 Leclaire/
App. # 5/ Montreal, PQ, HIV 3A8).

VALIUM ET LES DEPRESSIFS’ punk/
gothic/freak show is something to be seen al¬
though the band is presently on the drawing
board, so to speak, rewriting their material. They
have a tape: Chu malade (another collector). The
singer, Valium, designed the much controversial
comp sleeve (his somewhat zany sense of humor
doesn’t suit everyone) and the drummer Bowcll
is the man behind LUNATIK ASYLUM (5425
Bordeaux St. / Espace #223/ Montreal, PQ, Ii2H
2P2), a cassette recording studio where the

Ondes de choc tapes are produced.

LES STUPS: Led Zep/Doors sound. They
apparentely have a demo. They plan a farewell
tour in 2045. Meanwhile, two of the band’s
members host an indie rock cummunity-radio
show: Friandises.

LES 3/4 PUTAINS: I guess the best way to
describe their sound is to imagine a show with
Serge Gainsbourg fronting The Cure in the
Vatican boysroom.They sing mostly about sexual
frustation. They have two cassettes, the red
demo (collector...) and Onde de Choc. Vol .2
Contact: (7235, De Gaspe St./ Montreal, PQ,
H2R 1Z5). IDEESNOIRES: Quebec’s Ilusker Du
with a 70s speed/folk touch have a live demo
(collector) ana are planning a 4-track EP this fall.
Great music, good lyrics and a scorcher on stage.
Contact: (509, Outremont St/ Outremont, PQ,
H2V 3M4).

REKTUM are a speedcore band from Trois-
Rivieres. I saw them at the comp lauching and
was much impress by their style and humor.
They seem to singmostly about poutine and pate
chinois (two of Quebec’s national dish). They
have a live demo, I think. Maybe Cargo or Tir
Groupe Productions know more about them.

B.A.R.F. (BLAST ALL THE FUCKERS -
speedcore), well, I don’t like them at all, so why
bother... They seem to be quite political, though.

Laches Lousses Vol. 2 is planned for 1991.
New bands are emerging. HOROSCOPE 32 have
a demo with very good hardcore on it, and are
recording another one. (56, des Goelands/ Cap-
Sante, PQ, GOA 1LO).

R.F.A. (for RETOUR VERS LE FUTUR
ANTERIEUR) - college punk/speedfolk) are the
new rage. DEDETI<AKE is a Rap’n’Roll band
whose snows are as mad as you can think, when
they bother to gig. They are apparently recording
material to be refused soon. LES GRENOUILLES

DEJANTEES are a ’50s and ’60s cover combo
also giging from time to time. LES MALADES
MARTEAUX are a new duo a la Berurier Noir (the
beatbox included). They have a demo (in short
supply...). BANLIEUE ROUGE (C.P. 241/ Sta¬
tion A/ Longueil, PQ. J4H 3X6) have a tape En
attendant demain and played a benefit with LES
KROST0NS (who have a new demo: Vive les
Detard s) and AMNESIE which was well attended?
All profits went to la LIGUE ANTI-FASCISTE
MONDIALE (C.P. 538/ Station H/ Montreal, PQ,
H3G 2L5) whose goal is to stop the growing
influence of nazi-skins ana right-wing
organisations in Quebec. Hitler-lovers are out in
force since a couple of months, harassing ethnic
people, desecrating Jewish cemetaries and
spreading hate-literature around. A branch of
the KKK was here formed recently (Longitude
74). Those morons are picketing along with
Chateauguay residents against the blockade of
the Mercier bridge by the Mohawk Indians, who
are asking for the recognition of their land claims.
Some leaflets were intercepted by L.A.M. mem¬
bers.

LES UNKNOWNES, a hardcore band with
a touch of Sub Pop, issued a demo with their new
singer. (C.P. 387/Station De Lorimier/ Montreal,
PQ, H2H 2N2). The first one is still available, just
contact the band. SLUSH PUPPIE have a very
good cassette (c/o Fred / C.P. 603/ PontRouge,
PQ, GOA 2XO).

LES KROSTONS were planning an all¬
ages festival of independant French-speaking
bands for mid-August. The hoped to get about 20
bands playing in a park or a very large hall. A
third aemo is on the way as well. Contact:
(L’Oblique c/o LES KROSTONS/ 4333 Rivard
St./ Montreal. PQ. H2J 2M7).

Speaking of L’Oblique, this record store is
specialised in French (both local & imports)
music and zincs. A must, considering the low
prices they ask and the dedication of the staff.
MARIE ETSES 4 MARIS and NITROGLYCERINE
both released an Ondes de choc tape. NITRO¬
GLYCERINE is a all-women experimental band
and have previouly issued a tape. Contact them
through LUNATIK AZYLUM (address above). Their
off-shoot LES POIZ’ONS ROUGES gig once in a
while. JUNGLE MANNERS, a French-speaking
punk band, has a cassette. Contact: (13092,
Ramzay/ Pierrefond, PQ, H8Z 3B5)

VENT DU MONT SHAJ*R (anarcho-nihil¬
ist/punks) packed Les Foufounes Electriques
(Montreal’s biggest alternative club, holding about
500 people) for their 15th farewell gig (it looked
like a good one though). Some members re¬
formed Tor a one-off gig last June under the name
LES TROIS ROUES uU SHARR...

WALLYGATORS, Quebec City’s Dutronc/
Damned/Joe Dassin combo split up in July. A
limited tape of the last gig will be available. (406,
rue Utourelle/ Quebec! Pg. G1R 1E2). LES
CHERES LOQUES HUMAINES, also from Que¬
bec City spit up as well, the bassist moved to
Montreal and is looking for musicians. We hear
from time to time about LES MAUVAISE HEIU3ES
(legendary Q.C. band), but still no live signals
from them... Generaly, Quebec City’s bands
sound more punk or rock’n’roll than Montreal’s
ones. Apparently, the public is a lot more wild
there as well.

Fanzines are popping out from time to
time. Rectangle (c/o Lc Trait Indclebile/ 10,
Ontario St. West/ Bureau 701 R/ Montreal, PQ,
H2X 1Y5), covering the comix and local French
scene is the steadiest to date, (undergoing Vol. 3)
with issues every two months. They opened a
new space, distributing French fanzines and
records. Ramblin’ Rose (C.P. 643/ Succ. C/
Montreal. PQ. H2L 41.5) is out monthly with its
bilingual scene reports. A punk/ska/garage
compilation cassette is planned for the September
issue. We are still waiting for the first Commcun.
bourn crang (covering mostly the garage scene) in
almost two years. ItYs supposed to be accompa¬
nied by a live BERURIER NOIR single. Thcre’s
also Veto (3514 Lacombe/ Montreal. PQ. H3T
1M1), with a mixture of comments on the music
scene. Pustule is another zinc with a weird blend
of comix, music, literature and freebies (a soda-
cracker in the latest issue). Gindcore is a zine out
from accross the St. Laurent River: hi-speed,
thrash + graphic violence (mostly consisting of
clippings). The first issue was in english, out
they switched to French, because of poor sales!
Contact: (372, St-Andre/ St-Etienne de Lauzon/
Quebec/ GOS 2LO). Stage Dive #2 is finally out.
interviews, reviews, etc. on the hardcore and

speed scene. Contact: (Stage Dive Productions /
PO Box 553 Verdun/ Veraun, PQ, H4G 3E4).

The last *zine to date is Etat de choc (out
every three months) with reviews, interviews on
the French-speaking underground, social com¬
ments and a great lay-out: (c/o Dan/ C.P. 5545/
Station H/ Montreal. PQ, H2X 3M6).

That’s it for now. La suite au prochain
numero!

Dominique/ 5410 St-Dominique/ Montreal, PQ,
H2T 1V4, Canada

Long Island scene report? What Long Is-
and scene? Basically, there isn’t one. There are
10 regular venues for alternative/hardcore /punk
anas on Long Island, partially because you
people don’t support ’em.

CBGB’s has reinstated hardcore mati¬
nees, a staple of their schedule for many years.
3ut most oT the Long Island bands are shut out
Decause they can’t draw like those NVC straight
idgers.

So things on Long Island remain screwed
ip. There are only two venues with a history of
lardcore/alternative music. The Right TYack
nn in Freeport has had occasional matinees, as
veil as shows from bands like TOKEN ENTRY,
AJDICHRIST. NORMAN BATES & THE
3HOWERI1EADS, and the CRUMBSUCKERS.
3ut now they’ve initiated a ban on hardcore acts
n favor of more Grateful Dead cover bands. This
vas the only small club for new bands to start
>ut in. Their new policy leaves all the bands
which Ill get to later) with no place to play.

Bay chore’s Sundance is a large venue
vhich books most of the major hard rock/heavy
netal bands that come through New York. From
ime to time, one of the major national hardcore
groups sneaks through. Tneir showcase nights
ire now one of the few places for a local band to
May in front of an audience, usually with some
otal garbage synth pop and glam metal bands
m the same bill. These are also always middle of
he week shows. It’s impossible to develop an
ludience from these types of bills.

Recently, a group of bands and fans have
gotten together to attempt a coup at one of these
Tubs. By combining their weight maybe some-
hing can be done.

Support has been garnered at WUSB,
5UNY at Stony Brook’s college station. WUSB
10.1 is the only station that takes a chance with
ocal and alternative music. There are several
nteresting shows including Turmoil with Steve
freitzer (Wed 10:30 pm-12:30 am). Channel 69
vith Chris Crowley (Tue 3 pm-6 pm), Hoedown
rom Hell with Ted Schreiber (Mon 3 pm'6 pm),
rnd Canned Peaches with Amie Pritchett (Wed
k30 pm-10:30 pm). Tune in and support WUSB,
Decause they support Long Island music. A
urogram guide ana more Information can be
kcd^bycaJlinglSiejesa-eOOl or write WUSB

ni0nBldg / SUNY " SB/St0 °y

4 THE N1HIL1STICS have Just released their
bird album. Fuck the Human Race . TheyVe
apparently felt the heat of the conservative
movement. The band was reportedly forced to
emove the album from stores in Georgia and
nave since placed a “Feed" sticker over the other

r. Reach them at Visionary Records/ 524 W.
trd StV Suite 4049/ New York, NY 10011.
SEA MONSTER is another Long Island
d that has been around awhile. To date they
ave released one EPand one 7 M . Regulars at the
ight Track Inn, as well as occasional gigs at
laces like Spfre in Huntington and CB’s made
hem one of the Islands most visible bands.

Often on bills with SEA MONSTER at
.T.I. were THE GHOULS and THE CHISLERS.

But with the R.T.I. ban, who knows where they’ll
end up next. THE STORT ING BACHELORS have
an album out entitled Ixwe letters to Joanna .

SIX AND VIOLENCE is a great, goofy
hardcore type band that are apparently still
kicking. They are scheduled to appear at
Sundance with thrash metallers NUCLEAR AS¬
SAULT. They’ve even got their old drummer back
after a stint with LUDICHRIST. NO REDEEMING
SOCIAL VALUE describe their music as “hardcore
th a sense of humor." They can be reached at
9-87 218th St./ Queens Village. NY 11427.
REALITY INVERSION had also been playing at
Right Track. Maybe they’ll pop up somewhere
Tse.

SOUND BITE HOUSE have been getting a
lot of support for their 3-song cassette. They
have been regulars on WUSB’s playlist as well as
Boston’s WNBR. If you live in Boston, call WNBR
at (617) 253-8810 to request them. The tape is
ivailable free... that’s right FREEH dust get off
/our lazy ass and call their hotline at (51 6) 281 -
1606 and leave a message. They will be recording
i new tape at the end of August, as well as
appearing on Manhattan Cable. The program is
called “Breaking the Barrier" and will he distrib-
ted nationally to colleges and universities.

Behemoth Records will make their second
elease a comp of Long Island bands including
'HE N1HILISTJCS, TI IE STORTING BACHELORS?
SOUND BITE HOUSE and THE GHOULS. It will
be part of a series entitled Feed Me Trash . I’m
Hungry. It should be in stores all across the
obe, so be sure to buy it. Their first release was
compilation of NJ bands including Big Nurse
Behemoth Records/ PO Box 874/ Lindenhurst,
NY 11757-0874.

Any of the above-mentioned bands can be
eached care of Behemoth Records. Be sure to
support any of these bands when they play
because without people to show up, the club
owners will continue to chase away punk/
hardcore/alternative music. If you want to hear
t, you have to get off your stupid, fat ass and
support it. Any bands interested in shows, call
(516)281-1606.

I’d like to continue these little reports but
I need some assistance from you readers from
Ivong Island. Send me information, otherwise Ill
have nothing interesting to say. Show up at
shows, otherwise I’ll have none to write about.
Support Long Island bands, otherwise Ill have
none to report on. Are you starting to get the
icture? I nope so.

1 oe Mazzeo/183 Richmond Ave./ Amityville, NY I

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Good morning my name is zub friend of
the infamous carpet fuzz. P'irst of all let me tell
you how our scene here in Louisville has grown.
Kids are swarming to shows like the flys swarming
over the dead dog thats been lying in my back
yard for three years now. Anyway the weather
has been great here and the grass looks bluer
(sorry... greener). I’m finally out. Alive in a day.
Lots of cool bands and a great new club. Read
on... We’ll start off at the bottom and work our
way up...

C.D.Graffitti’s (a club loved by kids, I
think, hated by bands) tries to do shows every
friday, mostly locals though except for Life
Sentence,the Undead, Jawbox, Integrity, Face
Value (Cleveland), Slap Of Reality and Delirium
(Indy) a few to note. But as our world turns
toward the light and as that club eats dirt a new
club a real club the Zodiac club is now opened
and running with shows galore. The first show
featured F.U.C.T. from Nashville and BUSH-
LEAGUE.The second show was vet a little larger
featuring Judge, Integrity, Edgewise and locals
ENDPOINT. Next the Undead and then the long
awaited show, D.O.A., Negazione and UNDER¬
MINE. Also Powermad ana soon well see Urge
Overkill, Caustic Solutions (Nashville) and hope¬

fully Seaweed. If you wanna come to louisville
(say Loo-ee-vull) or you’re in a band and you
wanna play here call the Zodiac, Dave at(502)454-
3548. Louisville is now the happy father of many
new bands, MRS. FRAZIER, wno’ve just released
their debut cassette tape, are in the process of
getting a new drummer and should play again
real soon. To get a copy of their tape or other info
write to 1112 Highland Ave. Apt#l/ Lou., KY
40206.

Yes many new bands... Rumor is SLINT
will be signing to Touch & Go and will be touring
Europe(7). KINGHORSE is still waiting for the
release of their long awaited Caroline Records
debut, should be good look for it. OBLONG BOX
took a break for a while and is playing again, I
think. ENDPOINT has signed to Conversion
Records and should be recording some vinyl real
soon. There are still copies of their tape available
from SLAMDECK/scramdown. BUSH-LEAGUE
is recording a demo and maybe a live tape for
some unknown reason and should be in this
world real soon. If you want more info or other
free stuff write to them. UNDERMINE hasiust
recorded a 7” on SclfDestruct Records.And CRAIN
should be recording a 7" to be produced by Mr.
Seve Albini himself

Every time a band plays here in Louisville
there is so much energy and excitement. At a
KINGHORSE show ambulances are called ahead
of time. When at an ENDPOINT show everyone
want s on stage either to sing along or to jump off,
golly how frantic and none of them have hair. At
a BUSH-LEAGUE show those who aren’t beating
the shit out of each other are watching their
singer beat the shit out of himself-why? OB¬
LONG BOX just causes the whole room to move
as their music fills you and just gives you a
twaang! MRS.FRAZILR's rockin' melodies with a
grungy edge makes you dance brother, drunk,
out of your mind, run, groovey. When UNDER¬
MINE plays someone always gets in trouble... if
these little misfits would keep their clothes on
we’d all be better off, Yahoo!!nil!!

Other locals include... LETTUCE PRAY,
CINDERBLOCK, CRINGE, LOVE JONES, BIG
WHEEL, SISTER SHANNON, and KING GAND J
Krew, five country western rappers from Ken¬
tucky (hmm). For their demo send $5 to 12108
Locust Lane Dr./ Ancorage, KY40223.

Addresses: MRS.FRAZIER/ 1112 High¬
land Ave. Apt.#l/ 40206. BUSH-LEAGUE/ 9409
Aylesbury Dr./ lou. KY 40242. Dave and Zodiac/
PO Box 4853/ lou., KY 40204 (502)454-3548.
SIAMDECK/scramdown/ PO Box 43551/ lou.,
KY 40253. ENDPOINT tapc-$6 to Sdk/scrdn;
SUNSPRING demo $2 same... For other tapes
just write.

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Please send any info or photos to the 225 address
for future reports. See ya later. Well I did over-
ook something. Mandrakes Club c/o Tom
"hipman/ 7th & Chester/ little Rock. AR 72221
phone# (501)374*7122. Bye.

Howdy, From down here in Miami, Florida!
Let’s start off with some bands and stuff! First of
all there’s a new band here that everyone is
raving about: JOBBERNOWL. They are kind of a
combination of Fugazi meets ALL meeting 7
Seconds. They have a demo out and it really
cooks. The band is made up of George (cx-F Boyz)
on vocals, Fausto (GENETIC MISTAKE), a dude
from CLEVELAND on guitar and a hell of a
bassist named Omar. You can get in touch with
them at 512 S.W. 73 Ave./ Miami. FL 33144.
(305)261-8191.

through NEW AGE at: PO BOX 3934/
Mission Vicio, CA 92690.

GR1NDCIIORD is supposed to make a
comeback pretty soon. They recorded a new
demo but tnev don’t have a singer right now. No
more info on them. but I will say that Uiey are one

of the heavier hardcore bands around!

INDECISION have been keeping a low
profile. They are in the middle of writing a new set
and are planning to go into the studio in the next
few months. They have been writing a lot of
record companies and zines all over the country
but have yet to be signed. You can reach them at:
11114 S.W. 159 Ter./ Miami, FL 33157. Their
demo is absolutely free, just send them a blank
tape and 50$. They are also planning on relocat¬
ing to Gainesville.

Q UIT have beenplaying every weekend for
the past 6 months. They are one of the more
“professional" bands around here. They usually
won’t play unless they are guaranteed $$$! I

S ersonallv think that their manager is fucking
lem up! No address right now but, you can write
any of the bands down here for more info.

FWA kicked out their guitarist (Jesse, the
singer now plays) and they also kicked Puke, the
bassist out and replaced him with Mike Crume
(ex-INDECISION & BEYOND REASON). Amaz¬
ingly, they got real tight again with the quickness.
Again you can reach them through other bands.
BEYOND REASON is a SXE band and they are
waiting to receive word from YOUR FUTURE
RECORDS on doing a 7" but they tell me it's
doubtful. You can get their address from the May
or April issue of MRR.

Rugged EDGE is a punk band that has
been around for quite a while. A.J. (drummer)
has opened a new club called The Junkyard. You
can get their record from there at: 804 NE 1 St./
(forgot the zip code) (305)532-9152.

Now on to Ft. Lauderdale:I ‘m not sure if
the BAD REP skins are still around but, they are
the only band that I’ve heard of from up there.

In West Palm the big band is TOE BE¬
LIEVERS and they have a new demo out. You can
reach them at 225 2nd Way/ West Palm Beach,
FL 33407. They also take care of GSP prod.

STAND ASIDE is another SxE band from
W. Palm. They have a demo and you can reach
them through GSP prod.

The SrlOCKRODS are from Palm Bay and
they rip, so I hear. You can get their new demo
from Mike Cannon/1120 Albion St. NW/ Palm
Bay, FL32907. Well that’s about it for bands that
J to}ow of if I missed any please write me at the
INDECISION address.

, As far as zines go, we got a hell of a lot of
em. First off there is Hoodwink : written by David
Font. 75c to him at: 200 S.E. 15 Rd. #16-d/
Miami, FL 33129. This is a great zine and is
highly recommended by Martin Sprouse (and he
knows his shit). Carter zine is a kind of a comical
zine. It’s pretty cool and only 50c. You can get it
at: 1239 N.W. 22nd Ave./ Miami, FL 33125.

Ivy League (vcg-core) should be coming
out next week. ILA HA, a little inside joke there
No address right now but it’s going to have
interveiws with Fugazi/Dischord and the ever
great INDECISION.

Up north in Gainesville the big zine is No
Idea. They always put a T in their issues andit
is packed full of interviews, ideas, reveiws, etc.
Well worth the mula at: PO BOX 14636/
Gainesville, FL 32604-4346. Shit-n-Shinola is
also from Gville at: Travis Fistoe/ UF/ 18-0235
Rawlings/ G’villc. FL 32512-1801.

As far as shows and places to play in
Miami, the new club is The Junkyard. Also on
Miami Beach is a new club called the Thrash
Can. The^ shouldjbe opening Aug. 13 and shows

include: C.O.C., Bad Religion and Shelter. They
are also doing local shows every week. In West
Palm there is The Pit, contact gsp prod.for that

VOLKSWHALE soon on Vinyl Communications
of Chula Vista. CA. It’s going to be a split 7" with
Titwrench.

Seraphic Decay is a new label with kind of
high prices, but they put out a kick ass 7" by
MINCH and one soon by California’s Meat Shits.

GGE Records recently released an indian
rope burn CD with 70 plus minutes of music.
Quite a deal with more to come. I’m sure.

Word has it that SLEEZY JESUS ANDTHE
SPLATTER PIGS may do some vinyl too pretty
soon. On Good Friday, these guys did a show
where they took a lot of shit from people in the
neighborhood over their name. It’s quite a name,
that’s for sure I

Cassettes: uh. yeah, there are a lot of them
and I’m sure I’ll forget plenty of them. GO T is a
fledgling cassette label that has one tape each by
DOMESTIC CRISIS (containing one member of
MINCH) and the SLUGS OF SUSEJ.

PALOCSAY cranks out some strange ex¬
perimental tapes. Two or three, so far, I think. If
you’ve got a mind that’s open to some different
stuff, cneck it out.

Berzerk tapes is also gettlngits feet wet. So
far, it has released a SOCKEYE retrospective
tape and a compilation. The comp contains
locals SOCKEYE and VOLKSWHALE as well as
such national acts as Screeching Weasel. These
tapes are $3 each.

Spazztic Underworld has Just spat out its
first comp, as well. It has songs by SOCKEYE.
Samiam,Public Humiliation and morel

GGE also has its fair share of tapes out
there. Most recently, a tape by SECOND SKIN,
which, as I understand, might release some little
pieces of vinyl, as well.

2 WIDE 4 UPPS. after a really great V last
year, have released a new cassette which I have

address.

Well that’s it for me.I did this report mainly
'cause Bob in Stuart, FL forgot a few of our S.
Florida bands in the last scene report. Bob, if you
want demos of these bands write me at the
INDECISION address! Thank you and keep striv¬
ing!

a new split 7” in the fall on Pleh! out of Texas. It’s
expected to be split with the almighty Virginian’s
Eeyore Powertool.

VOLKSWHALE also has a 7” out on the
same lame-ass label. These records are $3 each
on colored vinyl. Look for a new one by

not yet heard. Also, Donnie’s other band, HYPER
IIELL, has a new tape Jam packed with hits
from the past and present.

Formerly with COLONEL TOM AND THE
EPSTEIN BROTHERS. Bill Weita has redirect
himself with his new band, FUZZHEAD. So far.
this band has a couple of tapes with really cool
color covers.

around, but no tapes yet. Let s hope to hear one

I have this funny way of convincing myself
o do these things even though most people Just
et Dissed at me when thev read them. Oh well.

e for each issue. Past issues have

t tJS r*Tci i|5«j £ r.wT.T. r:i U’/iilWu

7 M s. Future issues will sport 7”s by 4
GHOST SONATA).

A story of homeboys m

ood is next
has signed

s have been

Somewhere, someone knows for sure, but
thought I heard that THE FLOYD BAND would

of Com is headed
Who would have

into this zine. Not typical stuff.

Clubs are few and far between here. A new
one has opened, but like so many, is concerned
only with major acts, so fuck it.

The Babylon A Go Go continues to be the
best area showcase for local and national acts. A
lot of stuff goes down there. Too much to list, but
you MTV viewers might have seen it on that lame

4^6 y* 80 tourin S band9 ’ a caW at(216J8

New to the Akron area is the Millworks,
art gallery and performance space. G
first music shows to be presented 1
happen August 25 and it mil feature tl
weirdos, VOLKSWHALE.

One last thing to plug here is foi
radio station in the iana, WCSB. If yoi
get your band some airplay, it is a darn
to get in contact with these folks: M
Steve Wainstead or Luigi Bob Drake.

£Kit I rivioa. n ii _t,

Sony if it doesn’t^ sit_weUjvith someone, fiut il

Wheelchalr FulTof Old Men'siogan‘readsT‘‘We
suck, but yon suck worse." So long. Uncle Dave.
Addresses:JDavid SchallJforEOC zine $1

^3 each)/ PO Box 2143/

Records/ PO Box 141

44114... St. Valentine-_—_„ . w

770417/ Cleveland. OH 44107.,, GGE Records/

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Rocky

>od idea
lc Hole.

Shit. I guess that^s alTfor my brief report.
Sorry if it doesn’t sit well with someone, but I
guess that’s tough shit. Bye bye now. As the
Wheelchair Full of Old Men slogan reads. “We
suck, but you suck worse." So long. Uncle Dave.

Addresses: David Schall (for EOC zine $1
per issue. SOCKEYE or VOLKSWHALE 7 's are
$3 each)/ PO Box2143/ Stow, OH 44224... Scat
Records/ PO Box 141161/ Cleveland. OH
44U4... St. Valentine’s Records/ PO Box
770417/ Cleveland. OH 44107.,, GGE Records/
PO Box 5088/ Kent. OH 44240... Seraphic De¬
cay/ Kamms Plaza, Suite #1C~ --~ “

River Dr./Cleveland, OH44111 ___

9890 Tamarack/ Brecksville, OH 44141
Spazztic Underworld/ 8101 Richard Rd
Broadview Hts., OH 44147,., Noisy Concep
621 Bassett Rd./ Bay Village, OH 44140
Palocsay/ 3710 W. 139th St7 Cleveland. 0
44111-4460... The Millworks/ 540 S. Mai

44240.

CHICAGO, IL.

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Got a few things to mention before we
jump into the music coverage. A few nights ago
on television I saw an ice cream commercial
starring the whole Chicago City Counsel. Is
Chicago the only city where its aldermen do bad
commercials? In other local happenings,
Romeoville, which is a northern Illinois town,
their village trustees passed an ordinance that
would make the penalty for assaulting a flag
burner a $1 fine. A second vote will happen ana
if that gets a majority trustee vote, that’will be
the law. Luckily many civil liberty oregnizations
are putting pressure on the trustees, but their
eloquent mayor has been quoted as saying, "If
someone burned the flag, you beat the hell out of
them," which is how he said he dealt with flag
burners in the past. I’ll keep you posted on whal
happens in my next report.

Onto lighter subjects like music — I know
that’s all you really want to hear about anyways.
A band I gave compliments to in my last report
has broken up, sort of. GRIND’s vocalist/guitar¬
ist has left the band and now has formed DE¬
NIAL, which will have more rock than funk like
his old band. The drummer and bassist will keep
GRIND together, but it will be less punk and a lot
more funk.

new Dana cauea n,API KAI iUN DATE will
have a demo tape out by the time you read this,
mere will be 8 or 9 songs of hardcore thrash with
a Misfits/Minor Threat/LIFE SENTENCE influ¬
ence. If vou want to write to them the address is:
Don E.D./ 1916 South Courtland/ Park Ridge,
IL 60068. The tape will cost $5 ppd.

EARTHQUAKE YOUTH are a hot new band
that plays fast punk funk and has a great
bassist. They also sound a bit like the Tar
Babies. At this time I have no address, hopefully
next time I will.

Another band that I do not have much
information on is ONCOMING TRAFFIC. They
play garage, countiy punk and show tunes. They
are a good live band and should have an EP out

soon.

o i wui nave uieir secona tape iin-
ished anytime now and it promises to be an
excellent release. Their sound is like early Wire,
Wedding Present and old Buzzcocks. The ex-
basslst from I-SPY is their second guitarist and
some ofyou long-time scene people may remem¬
ber this band from when they were called UGLY
PEPPER. You can get their new tape for only $2.
Their address Is PO Box 105/ Oak Lawn, IL
60454. They also have shirts for $10.

An EP is out on Full On Records from the
always hot APOCALYPSE HOBOKEN. Eveiy-
thing I have heard from A.H. has been good punk
with a sense of humor. You can get ahold of the
band b^ writing to: PO Box 6124/Bloomingdale,

MO-FUZZ is a rather young band who all
met each other in a multi-car accident. While
they are in the process of suing each other they
are also putting together quite a good alternative
rock, slightly punk band. This is not a hardcore
band, but they do have a punk edge and are not
wimpy like a lot of other "alternative" bands.
Their lyrics cover a wide spectrum of subjects
like racism and politics to name a couple. Their
debut tape is entitled "American Dogs*’ and will
be out by the time you read this. The price is $4
and three stamps. It will have about 14 songs
and on good tapes. Send all mail to: Eric O’Claire/
616 Hunter/ Glenview, IL 60025 .

I made a mistake in my last report, TAR¬
GET will not have their EP on Underdog, but
instead it is already out on Shake Fork Records/
513 Prairie/ Downers Grove, IL 60515. Also on
that label are releases by IVY LEAGUE and
MANNEQUIN HAND. Send a SASE or just a
stamp for their prices. Oh yeah there was one
more error: BILLINGSGATE has an EP on Victory

Records not Underdog. They will also have an
album on Victoiy in the fall.

EVEN SCORE has broken up, with some
of the members going on to form LIFE CYCLE.

I was reminded that GEAR deserves to be
mentioned, and I am sorry for forgetting them.
They are an excellent mid-to fast-paced punk
band who have an EP on Your Future Records.

SLUDGEWORTIT has an EP on Roadkili
Records. I have not heard it yet so that’s all I can
say about it for now. You can get in touch with
the band by writing to Brian Vermin/ 3930 West
Chicago. IL 60618.

-- —• -ing out on Scrap Dog F_

that should be done this month. Their 14-song
tape can be yours by sending them a few bucks,
I am not sure exactly how much, but $4 should
cover it and the postage cost. They also have t-
shirts and stickers. For info you can call Andy at
(618)462-0302 or write to 2717 Brown St./
Alton, IL 62002.

, MISLED have a new mailing address:

1208 Ronzheimer/ St. Charles, IL60174. They
just released a 9-song tape that has real good
packaging and cost $6.50 ppd. to the above
address.

The MYSTERY GIRLS who were G.G. Allin’s
back-up band are still going strong with the
guitarist taking over the vocals until G.G. gets
out ?£ the psychiatric ward. They are recording
an album that should be out on a big indie and
will be touring sometime soon. Their music is
reminiscent of the Dead Boys and their stage
show is still wild, good raw old-style punk that
should be heard.

If - vou are a female musician BAI^BIE
ARMY wants you. Most of the band left, leaving
just Jean Lyons as the only original member. I?
you play guitar or drums and are of the female
gender call Jean at (312)733-2529.

CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW are an indus¬
trial band with a dance beat and power punk
guitar work. They released a new cassette tnat is
not punk, but not boring dance crap either. They
sound a little like a big time Chicago industrial
band who I shall not mention. Anyways, their
tapp is $4 to: Grey Parker/ 636 W. Berry #1/
Chicago, IL 6065 7.

Two ex-EFFIGlES members and one ex-
E1SENHOWER have got together to form

LAUGHING MAN. They sound like 77 British
punk and also like old EFFIGIES. They want to
reach younger crowds and have done some
shows, but are disappointed with the state of the
local clubs. They have recorded a tape and will be
playing out quite a bit the next couple months.
For info on the band you can write to Paul
Zamost/ 1596 Blackhawk/ Wheeling, IL 60090.

Pop rock “stars” MATERIAL ISSUE look as
if they will be signed by a major label very soon.
Even though they are one of me most egotistical
bands in Chicago they still put out some good,
although wimpy, music.

TRENCHMOUTH have re-released their
EP, which has a couple excellent songs. They
have a funk beat and are hard to describe
musically. One of their songs has a tribal sound,
one is a weird rock song and there are some punk
undertones. They are also recording for a new EP
and have t-shirts for sale. For prices or informa¬
tion you can write to: Fred Armisen/ 3722 N.
Clark/ Chicago, IL 60613.

Just got a letter from JUDGE NOTHING
and their EP Is out and can be yours for $4 (you
can get them from their above mentioned ad¬
dress, make money orders/checks out to Andy
Dyke man).

That is all the music info I’ve scrounged up
for this report. Now we shall check out the zine
scene.

Rain has gone to newsprint and the new
issue has interviews with TRENCHMOUTH and
SINDROME (who may be Chicago’s worst band)
and lots of press release clippings and other
stuff. You can get a copy for $2. Their new
address is: Box 2460/ Chicago, IL 60690. I will
have a newsletter/zine out by the time this is
printed. We’ll have interviews with the Pink
Lincolns, Stevie Stilletto. BLOODY F. MESS, The
Mystery Tramps and more. It will also have
reviews, short stories, comix and more. All that
for only 50to my address at the end of the
report. The zine’s name will be Cud Brain Press .
Butt Rag lives up to its name, the look is good,
but the content is pretty lame. Good & Plenty has
gone full size and has tons of photos and a
BILLINGSGATE interview along with lots of other
good reading. The cost is $1.25 plus a stamp to:
Gabe Rodriguez/ 2116 Salem/ Zion, IL 60099.
This #4 is out with FLEA CIRCUS. Buzzcocks
and reviews and other zine type things. It’s a
great zine that should be mandatory reading! $2
and worth it: Box 1005/ Dekalb, IL60115. That
is all the zine info I could find. Seems like fewer
local people are putting out publications.

I would like to thank a few people who
wrote to me in regard to my last scene report:
Erik, Paul, Rich Muffin ana Kevin. It Is always
good to know that people actually read these
things. If you want anything mentioned please
drop me a letter or call (708)356-7155 after 5
p.m. weekdays. You can write to me at: Craig
Blomquist/ 48 Beck Rd/ Lindenhurst, IL60046?
Oh, yeah Illinois bands and zines can get free ads
in my zine; others can write or trade their release
for an ad.

Hello, this is Shant from Orange County.
About two months ago I wrote a scene report and
because two issues have since past I assume my
scene report was lost, oh well, on with the
current news.

APOCALYPSE just arrived back from their
tour, which went very well for them. CONFRON¬
TATION, who were also supposed to tour with
them, canceled and have called it quits. Matt
from CONFRONTATION and A1 (APOCALYPSE’S
old vocalist) have formed a band called MIND ROT,
who lias a demo tape available. ALL SYSTEMS
GONE have just released a 7"EP called Contrary
to Popular Demand . Anyone interested in a copy
can get one for S2.50 ppd. from my address at the
end. Also available is a new 13-song MEDIA
CHILDI^EN cassette, which was recorded live on

June 17, 1990. The show' on that day was

B lanned to be: a benefit for Faction Of Mercy and
tnseene Fanzine , but unfortunately it wasn’t
much of a benefit. We lost $20 due to the lack of
support from our scene. Some of the people that
did show up expected to get in with only a
handful of change and some expected to get in
free, which some did. We did not want to attract
police with people hanging around outside the
hall. Overall it was a good show as far as no
violence or problems beyond that of leeches.
There was a lot of free literature made available
to interested people along with low priced records.
This was the first show I organized and I believe
future shows/benefits will be much improved.
Another band that has called it quits is IN¬
FECTED. JimeToUnite #20 is finally available
after an 8-month dry spell. This issue includes
articles on abortion, religion, homophobia and
lots of other useful pieces of information and
opinion. Send three 25<t stamps to Tammy to
cover postage or 75c. Tammy has been very busy
organizing demonstrations such as an anti-
apartheid/ anti-Shell Oil demonstration on June
3. There was quite a good turn-out with about
25-30 people coming to show their protest to
apartheid. An anti-circus demonstrationon July
21 at the Anaheim Convention Center which
turned out well also. Also a picnic on July 15
with a turnout of about 30 people, not as good as
it could of been and has been in the past.Things
that areupcomingTimeTo Unite actions include
another demonstration at Shell Oil on August 5
and Volunteer Saturdays at Concerned Animal
Lovers Association (a shelter for unwanted cats
and kittens). Volunteers clean cages, feed and
water cats, and do general clean up work to help
the shelter out. The first Volunteer Day, May 12,
went very well with about 10 people attending
but since thgn it has gone downhill with only one
or two volunteers. If anyone is interested in any
of the activities that Tammy organizes please
contact her at the address below. Tammy and I
are in the process of organizing a meeting to get
everyone together who really cares about our
crumbling and apathetic scene. There is too
much talk — the time has come for everyone who
cares to become active. Everyone complains that
there is nothing to do and nothing ever goes on,
but these arc the same people that don’t show up
to our demos, picnics and gathering. We want to
say that everyone has the power to create and
improve our scene. Don’t expect others to put on
shows, demos, etc...

Another valuable activity is Food Not
Bombs, which takes place every second and
fourth Sunday at 1 p.m. at a park in Long Beach
(exact location: Broadway & Pacific). All the food
served is vegetarian and the turn-out out is
really low compared to the turn-out of the first
Food Not Bombs with about 200 people coming
for free vegetarian food for the homeless and

hungry. Your help is always needed, whether it
be to wash dishes, serve food, bring food, cloth¬
ing, etc.

GARBLECRAT still have their 7" available
from their address below. Unscene fanzine is no
longer together. The whole idea of the zine was to
get people together to work on a single zine
instead of so many small zines that are around.
Lack of interest and dedication left only a few
people to finish Unscene #2. We decided that it
was not worth our time and effort to keep the zine
alive. Well, that’s about it from here. If you would
like to contact us, please get in touch.

Shant/ Mass Media Record s-Media Children/
PO Box 2692 Costa Mesa. CA 92626 USA
Tammy-Time To Unite/ Media Children/ PO Box
2692/ Costa Mesa, CA 92626. ALL SYSTEMS
GONE/ (7 n EP is available for 2.50 ppd. from:)
Shant-Mass Media/ PO Box 2692/ Costa Mesa,
CA 92626 . GARBLECRAT/ PO Box 8620/ Long
Beach, CA 90808. HOLOCAUST-Pete/ 4611 1/
2 152nd St./ Lawndale, CA 90260. Dale and
Wendv- Disobev Zine / 166 Dewey
Park.C

l ppd.). Food

'ey Ave/ Newbury
Not Bombs/ P.O.

Box 4472/ Long Beach, CA 90804-0472 (phone
(213)599-787 if

Hi, Hi,

A lot of you will be surprised (and just as
many will be pissed) before I’m finished. The
scene here is truly a “scene.’’ a fuckin’ soap
opera. The few people who are sincere folks dont
do much (if anything) ‘cause they’ve realized
what a joke it is here. A few of them are Sue,
Marty, Norman, Brenda & Chris (Hi people).
When it comes to getting something done that is
truly beneficial, forget it around here. It’s easy to
stage an anti-fur, anti-Me Donald’s or anti-Shell
demo, but actually fight the city and protest a
single man’s meanness who wants to murder the
horses he “owns” (by starvation!) — oh, no! So
much easier to get on TV and be in the papers for
a popular cause that won’t change many main¬
stream media-manipulated morons anyway,

I tried to organize something late last year
in order to get something done. T figured we’d
have one big^ meeting during one of those so-
called “unity picnics and then get something
done. Well, we aid. Then there was another. And
another. And another. And more. Finally the first
issue came out. Part of that time I was back east
hying to get my shit together, so I (fortunately)
didn’t experience the uselessness of all those
vain meetings. I did hear all about them from
various folks. Recently, the second and last
issue came out. And for all the people who said
they’d help out — where were they? Got me. But
I do have two full sheets of addresses of ’em. No
unity. No label. No collective formed. That was
unscene for ya. Just like it’s title. Then again, it
was my idea, so I’m probably responsible for its
ultimate demise.

There are some, well, a lot of zines. Some
good, most boring. I work with System Opposed
and B en Is Dead , and I’d like to help Pete out with
Filthy Fuckln Punx . but I’m too shy to ask him,
maybe that’s why I write so much instead. All
three are great zines. Of course there are a few
others that are good fNo Answers is one) but I
only see it every now and then. These three are
the only ones I d wanna help out, though (mod¬
est, ain’t I — as if they are so fortunate!).

Bands: Top of the listis MIND ROT. They’ve
been around for a while, but only recently did a
demo at Southcoast (Hi Jim) and I love it.
APOCALYPSE is (was, by now) on tour. CON¬
FRONTATION has taken a brief hiatus. SUB¬
VERT came through and did a small Monday
night show before going on to Arizona, then a
Saturday night show (that I didn’t see) at Spanky’s
a week later. HOLOCAUST have played a num¬
ber of times, twice with SUBVERT, a couple of
Sunday shows. SUBVERT SECCUNTS are a new
band in the 3-chord Exploited MC vein, musically,
not lyrically. I haven’t heard much about
GARBLECRAT lately. There are lotsa other bands,
too, but either I ain’t heard of ’em or they’re not
worth mentioning.

So that’s it. I’m not sorry for shattering all
the myths about all the great stuff you’ve heard,
butifya lived here, you’d see what crap it is here.
Personally, I’ll be spending more time just living
a lifestyle that’s not mind-Tucked, drinking beer
and not much else.

I do the occasional one-off project like
"Hate-Hundred" and the upcoming "kop-
slaughter" now that I’ve passed "Happy Thrasher”

the way of the do-do. If you’re touring through
and are decent, Ill help ya out to get a show or
put ya up. Decent: good musik and/or good

S srson. Write me and we’ll see. Hi to Gerry (UK),
ypsy and Varda, Dawn (up north), Angi, Erick
(A.A.N., A1 - where are ya?). Layla (WA), BSU Ben
and Brad Skulls. Fuck off, Ben Weasel ‘cos I’m a
bigger asshole thanyou.

System Opposed / PO Box 1857/ Tustin, CA
92680... Ben Is Dead / PO Box3166/ Hollywood,
CA90028/ (714)960-7674... FilthvFuckin Pnnx/
HOLOCAUST/ 4611 1/2 - l52hd St/Lawndale,
CA 90260... APOCALYPSE/ PO Box 2257/ Wal¬
nut, CA 91788... GARBLECRAT/ TO Box 8620/
Long Beach, CA90808... SUBVERTSEC-CUNTS/
PO Box 4213/ Orange, CA 92613. (714)647-2307.

Oh yeah, check out Vinyl Solution on
18822 Beach Blvd in Huntington Beach. Write,
hate me, whatever, at: 813 N. Garfield, #4/
Santa Ana, CA 92701. (714)647-2307.

them Jn the shops. I don't think I will write to
those guys again, 'pause it will take two years to
get an answer, ,

Anyway onto the band scene. Things have
staWfd bit ?in$eJwrqte the lasttime in

. SPACE JUNIORS - been quiet for a while
thout some of the original members, joining to
their set. Box, the old Death Mission drummer
and now being a three piece. They're gigging as
strong as ever. A few bands have split up since 1
/rote the last time in No. 01. U.T.I. have finally
ailed it quits after playing a couple of parties.
Iso TERRIBLE VIRTUE have called it a day so
I’m not sure if this record will ever come out.
LETHAL OVERDOSE - still without a drummer
so I think they might have called it off. Ithinkthe
omp in double A might still come out DEATH
[ISSION are long gone now, the bass player is
..orking on a bay area influence, thrash metal
band. Other members are in SPACE JUN-
DETRIMENT, 375 HL. CALIGULA, etc.
MASS APPEAL - the drummer (Dave) left toioin
a new band CALIGULA and TERRIBLEVIRTUES
ex joins in. He's got to be one of the best
drummers I've seen. They've been organising a
ew under age gigs around Sydney.

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pus head of Sidney. BLACK & BLUE - theyj
1 1 play gigs anymore, just get together for a

few parties, so I suj

together, but they * __

hand. ROARING JACK* supported the Pogues
while they were touring here. I heard it went
down alright, and if you ever come to Sydney,
you canusually catch them at the Sandringham
Hotel, Thursday nights for free. THE ROCKS

have t *!_:!__ Z _ ^ ol

time In their lives. Thv’ve been rccording 'a fuli
length LP which shoufd be coming out anytime.
?iT c i?, won t be coming out no more, because
the old line up didn’t want to get together to do
so.

THE HARD-ONS are back from their Eu¬
rope and States tour, and from what they told
me, they got ripped off in the USA. Some of the
gig promoters undeipaid the band. Isn’t this
always the way? Isn't there a way of banning
these concert halls, so these guys go broke ana
realise what’s going on? BEZERK -Their singer
left to be replaced by some other guy. I still think
the old one was better. The new one is veiy good
though. Their style is slowing down to a melodic

.uppose they’re not officially
didjput out a demo before-
supported the Pogues

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down alright, and if you ever come to Sydney,

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BACK - They re not playing as often as they used
to so I hope la see them back on the track soon,
latest newa^there are rumours that they have
split up. VRAfft are also playing around quite a
bit and supporting and starting to headline
themselves, with one of the best gin bass players
IVe ever seen. If I had to compare them with
someone, it’d have to be “False Prophets" from
N.Y. although their sound is unique at the same
time, [hear they come from N.Z. and now living
here because there's more venues than N.Z?

They Ve got an EP.

and bras with Vn
the guys from FE

on a new band, ai — * •* •

members is down in Me^mjmeworking with his
” * * —: metal).

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think they

Hinted all over them. Half
'R FANATICS are working

members is aown in Melbourne working i
old band MASSIVE APPENDAGE (wank
TOYS WENT BESER" ~

Banshees type band with
not bad at what they do. — . „„„
should find their own sound. They have a few
records out. I believe they Ve released something
overseas, and now they are starting to get some
recognition. FEEDTIME have been around for

Rocks

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sound very much like their mates
"ery distorted post-punk or something. They
ave a few records out on Aberrant Records,
here’s a few people who wrote to me asking why
I didn’t mention LUBRICATED GOAT. IPs be-
ause they’re the biggest lump of shit I ever

ause they re the biggest lump ot shit 1 ever
teard. Also they can fplay ana have the worst
attitude. I’m not surprised SUB-POP signed them
up - Like the MC5 wanna be MUDHONEY who
came over here recently on tour and honestly are
one of the worst and most boring bands 1 have
ever seen, and this is not just my opinion. A band
hat has disappeared off the map Is KGB
STOOGES. I belfeve they split up.

Well, that’s more or less it about bands.
try to the bands I left out. To the people that
tend to come to Sydney for a visit or to live I’ll
cntion a few places where there’s gigs of your

THE IANSDOWNE HOTEL would be the
lace where they let more underground bands
lay. You wouja find this on Broadway further
> from Central Station and Sydney University,
en there’s the JOURNO’S CLUB on the other
side of Central Station. This place stays open
ntil early in the morning, men there is the
ENSHURST HOTEL. Catch a train from the city
T you get to Penshurst Station. From there

rhich is about half an hour away from the city
own south. THE HOPETOUN has your occa-
lonal gig - that’s in Surry Hills up the hill from
entraPStation. There is also the MARQUEE, a
new venue, they only have good bands when
someone from overseas plays which is once in a
ilue moon, the SEVEN HILLS HOTEL is mostly
or metal and thrash metal. This is out west of
the city. There’s a few more venues and hotels
vherq you can occasionally see bands, but you
:angeta free music magazine called On the Street
’ lich advertises all the gigs and venues every

econlstorese^xyWednesday 1 Lo^odout what's
;oing on. - • ■: jj&y.

t There has been a few underage gigs hap-
ining here. Also, we had a couple of Punk
entes with bands playingfor free ina park, The

ut please don’t ask because 1 don’t know. In
jydney we don’t have any Straight Edge bands if
ou iyere wondering or any Oi bands, thanks for
Tat. There’s also a ©roup called “Jellyheads"

Tat. There’s also a ©roup called "Jellyheads’’
hich will be the group running an alternative
ew similar to Gilman St. Mainly underage
cohol free. Well see if it gets off the ground,
ey have had some benefit gigs for such events.

About ztnes - well, there is one that comes
ut twice a year when ever he feels like it. It’s
ailed Blind Ambition . PO Box 378/ Dulwich Hill
2203 (the same PO box as mine). He also
oes the Punk/Hardcore showMonday 11,30pm
1 am 2RSR 88.4 FM.

Also the anarchist bookshop takes records
_ _d books, also some zines. Mostfy poliUcal stuff
therwise don’t waste your Ume cause they won’t
ake it. Send 1 IRC and ask them for info: 583

King Street/ Newtown 2042 Sydney.

Some info on LIVING END distribuUon.

Well I’m stuck with lots of records - 99% interna¬
tional, sony 1 don’t distribute Australian record s
ause the fabels here suck, or they don’t write
ack or they keep the money. I don’t want to
mention which ones, 'cause it will be nearly all of
em. there’s only a couple of decent labels in
ustralia - they would be Domlnator Records
from Adelaide, the only independent HC label
eft, or Aberrant Records. Anyway, what I’m
getting to, I want to trade with any label out there
who’s not a rip ofl) so I can get rid of all the stuff
I’ve got. Please write for a catalogue. At the end
of the year I’ll be going overseas lor a world tour
(might be ayear). FirstTTl go to Asia in November,
hen I think I’ll be USA by March or April, Canada
oo. So If anyone out there would put me up I’d
ippreciate it greatly, please, let us know ifyouVe
jot a small comer somewhere. TTien I’d like to go
o Mexico/ later I’ll be heading to Europe,

Some addresses: Abberant Records/ PO
Box A566/ Sydney South NSW 2000 Australia
(For Toys Went Beserk, Feedtime. King Snake
Roost etc.). Tlmberyard Records/ PO Box 459/
ewtown NSW2042 (released THE VICTIMS - All
Loud on the Western Front, Rerelease of the sold
ut EPs back in the 70s).

If I haven’t menUoned the addresses of

I wouldn't print anyway -cause I don’t give pub-
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Greetings from Cooperstown. NY, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Our town has
long been noted as a community that takes its baseball seriously, so it's only fitting that such
a phenomenon as the band I am about to clue you in on should come out of this area.
Cooperstown. as some of you may know, is a town located in upstate New York,
an area quite isolated from bigger New York state scenes. There were, up until about 9
months ago. only a very few people here who listened to or appreciated hardcore. My
friends and I would have to travel hours to either Boston or New York City to see shows.
During breaks in our tong drives, we would often pull over in rest areas for a quick game
of catch, or maybe a 1-inning game of ball if the area was big enough. Anyhow, our
a love of the national passtime and our love of hardcore found common ground one
afternoon at a Slapshot show in Boston. We were all wearing our baseball jerseys at
the show and Choke (Slapshot's singer), seeing this, started ragging on us for being
into baseball, not hockey. Well, this turned into a real battle of words between Choke
^ j and us. stopping the showfor over five minutes. The place was filled with Slapshot fans
1 who joined in against us, forcing us to leave or suffer dire consequences. We were
I only there to see a show and were forced out by these hockey goons! So much for k
/ scene unity! We were all mad as hell driving home, both astounded and depressed
/ that we were discriminated against because of our sport of preference. That
evening, driving home on Rt 90 West. Strikeout was born.

That was about a year ago and what I have seen happen in Cooperstown since
then is nothing short of amazing. Four of my friends, all of whom I played little league
. baseball with, formed Strikeout, a straight edge hardcore band with a heavy
C emphasis on baseball as a unifying element in the local scene.

None of the members of Strikeout knew how to play any instruments
when the idea for the band was born. Jimmy Shortstop, nowthe guitarist, has quite
a bit of money saved up from selling refreshments at Yankee Stadiumover the past *
three summers and he spent it all on musical instruments for the band to be. They
practiced intensely for four months, wrote songs and generally formed the strong
musical and ideological bonds needed for such a project. I'm not in the band,
preferring to remaining on the sidelines as coach (please don't call me a
manager).

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Opening day was set for Saturday. June 3,1989. We rented a local VFW

Hall, a P.A. and put Op posters all over town
advertising the show. The day arrived and the
turnout far exceeded our wildest expectations.

The hall was packed with curious locals, ec
witness what the posters and rumors promised—a
hitting hardcore/baseball combination, the likes of which
never been seen here or anywhere else ever before.

Showtime, and I myself was nervous, but the members of Strikeout were positively invigo¬
rated by the expectant energy in the room. Guitarist Jimmy Shortstop, bassist L. Drive,
drummer Phil and vocalist Will Amaze stood at a simmering, 'eager to take the stage' kind
of attention with their caps over their hearts while the national anthem was played over the
P.A. The the cry was heard: “Play ball!"

What followed was the most intense example of heart and soul wrenching hardcore
I have ever witnessed in two years of seeing shows around the northeast. Strikeout played their
almost hour-long set, chock full of what I'm sure will be trend-setting songs, including
“Strike Three,' 'Steal Home.” "My Fast Ball.' "Don't Balk On It' and the set-
climaxing singalong. “We're on Deck.' The audience was quite honestly
blown away by the energy, sincerity and unified presence of this band and
the debut show was the talk of the town for weeks.

Since that show, I have seen Cooperstown grow from almost nothing
into a thriving, productive, unified hardcore scene with a unique edge-
straight edge baseball influenced hardcore! Attendance at local shows
now averages close to 300 people, with some coming from as far away as
Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo and even New York City to take part in this new
and exciting phenom-enom. People are realizing that Cooperstown.
tong isolated from the rest of the scene, is now becoming a new and
excitingly vital hub of the northeast hardcore scene because of pre¬
cisely that! It's isolation has given it a young and irresistable fire which
would not have been possible in a larger, jaded city. 1

A Strike Out show Is an experience unlike any other show you'll
ever see. First, the Star Spangled Banner is played (a practice, that
Strike Out has taken some criticism for, but they do it only because of
baseball tradition, not national pride), then Strike Out run through . *

the crowd, high-fiving the audience members and take the stage.

The audience began bringing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd bases as well as ,
homeplate after the second Strike Out show in Cooperstown. !| ,

These bases are arranged in traditional "Diamond' fashion and
the audience actually mosh around them! I know this sounds || ;$'•••
unbelievable, but it's true! Because the VFW people demand it. /-1|| % \
several security types are present, who are fathers of a couple |g|| |
of Strike Out members. These guys are completely into it and MMmfcm
even dress like umpires! It's great to see the band playing,
flanked on both sides by their dads dressed as umpires, with
their hands on their knees, peering into the audience.

Strike Out have recorded a demo entitled “Straight
Over The Fence' and I am presently staying with friends in
New York City, shopping this tape to labels. Strike Out have . ^
asked me not to sell this tape, as they are eager to press it

, before making it available to the public. However. Strike Out will be .

touring the United States later this summer, so if you set up shows or are just
interested you can write them at the address below. Strike Out are interested in playing
baseball games during the day in the towns that they play music in at night and they will be
bringing a team with them so all interested leagues please write!

The following is an interview that I did with Strike Out for a local Cooperstown 'zine which was to be
Homefield The magazine has not come out yet, so I decided to submit it to MRR. Strike Out personell are Will
vocals. Jimmy Shortstop on guitar, L. Drive on bass, and Phil on drums. Your humble interviewer is Norm Finley.

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MRR: Explain the motivation behind Strike Out. What inspired you to start this band and dedicate
extent?

Will: I've been going to shows, hardcore shows that is, in Albany for about 2 years, I guess. Singing 1

in the back of my mind, but I kept putting it off, making excuses, or not thinking about it and then, it just got to the point fB
where... Ba

Jimmy: Actually, the point got to us. f|l

Will: Yeah, that's more like it. We couldn't deny what we had to do any longer. We had to get down with it. We had to §|f
admit how inspired and excited we were.

Jimmy: We've known each other for ages, since 1st or 2nd grade. We've always been friends, so the unity and^L
understanding has always been there. Strike Out is just a common development in our... in, you know, what we were doing
as friends and as far as where we were, um... that is, like our common goal as people. j

L. Drive: Yeah! Our common goal! That's cool! M

Jimmy: That's not to say our goal is common, like typical or anything. In fact it's not typical at all. It's rather not typical. What B
I mean is that it is common as in within the band. fS

L. Drive: Pretty much, yeah.

MRR: Tell us about the incident at the Slapshot show in Boston last year. Wasn’t that a big factor in the origin of Strke Out? 1

Will: Fuck, yeah! Were we ever pissed off! Kicked out of a show by Slapshot fans because we were wearing baseball jerseys gP]
insted of hockey shirts. And what could we do? Fight 100 Slapshot fans? Not that it would have solved anything. $

L. Drive: No. it wouldn't have. |

Will: Choke called us lightweight pussies for being into baseball, not hockey. Then I yelled back that at least in baseball
people don't come out all fucked up and injured like they do in hockey. Then he waved that hockey stick in my face and «**,
all of his goons surrounded us. I mean, try to make a point or say anything to defend yourself and get threatened. People |§
were telling us to get out or get our heads line-drived. jm

L. Drive: Which is where my name that I have for myself came from.

Jimmy: I mean, we have X's on our hands just like anybody else, so why should we face discrimination simply because we Wi
wear baseball jerseys?

Will: We invite Choke to come down to a Strke Out gig in Cooperstown.

MRR: What for? "

Will: To see how strong our team spirit is. To see that our scene is as unified, if not more so, than his. To see for himself the
awesome power of Strike Out and the Cooperstown crew. His buddies might even abandon Slapshot for Strike Out. .
Jimmy: Sure "Back on The Map" is one of the greatest records of all time, but I was kinda disappointed in his (Choke's)
attitude. -r\^

L. Drive: Meaning that we, as a band, were disappointed or rather, are disappointed, with it.

MRR: Explain the name Strike Out.

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Jimmy: And Pete Rose, betting on teams that he
coached. He should be ashamed of himself. The
lure of money, drugs and fame and fortune and
recognition brought hirrvdown. Once he was a
great man, doing great things. Now, where is he?
Broke, that's where.

Will: Instead of relying on his skill and tallent, he
stepped outside of that and he took a big fall.

L. Drive: More like a huge fall.

MRR: Now, you’ve taken some critisism for playing
the national anthem over the PA before your
shows. What is your response?

Will: We do it only because, for years, playing
baseball, that would be played at the start of each
game. Hearing that song gets me goind, ready to
play, be it hardcore or hardball. We're not nazi
skinheads.

Jimmy: Baseball is the national passtime, so why
not play the national anthem before we play? Will
came up with the idea and when he told me, I was
so excited that I just ran out and bought a copy of
the record and taped in onto the best Maxell I
could find. Then I lost the tape. Luckily, my dad had
a copy of the Star Spangled Banner on cassette
that he would listen to in his car and at our first
show, that's the version that we played over the
PA. Thanks dad.

Will: My dad is also really happy that we play that
song before we play. He says it's the most beautiful
piece of music ever written, and I agree. My father
plays that recording every day when he gets out of
bed. He says it inspires him to go to work at the
automotive plant the same way it inspires me to
play ball and music.

MRR: Your dads also dress as umpires and provide
security at your shows.

Will: Mine and Jimmy's do. It's great and just kind of
adds to the whole thing. My dad has been more
open to things like thaf since my mother passed
away.

Jimmy: My father used to make me play catch with
him when I was 7 years old. I hated it then, really.
One time, in the summer, I got sunstroke and had
to go to the hospital. But, rm glad he did it, or I
wouldn't be the person I am today. I think he felt
like he wanted me to be someone, since my
brother turned out to be such a hippy. My dad
totally supports Strke Out. The one thing that I wish
is thaf my dad would stop drinking so much. When
he's drunk, he just complains about his life a lot and

StrikeXOut, P.O. Box 690,

makes fun of me and my mom. He talks about
things he would have done if he wouldn't have
married my mom, which makes her cry. But when
he doesn't drink, he's like the nicest person. That's
one reason that I am anti-alcohol.

Will: My dad tells me that he is glad that I turned
out to be a boy, not a girl, like my sisters. But, that's
not to say that girls can't play baseball, because
they can!

MRR: What’s on the horizon for Strike Out?

L. Drive: More of the same!

Jimmy: Hopefully, someone will press our 14-song
tape. It's not for sale until it's pressed, we've
decided.

Will: In the summer, a tour, maybe a national tour.
Hopefully, we can bring enough people with us to
have a team to play baseball in some towns, too.
That would be great.

Jimmy: More snows in Cooperstown, too. This
place has a pretty big scene now, whereas a year
ago there was nothing. It's really amazing. Our
fans here are like our friends and family. We're
gonna go to Albany and NYC to play soon. As we
progress as musicians you will not see us get self-
indulgent, though. We are dedicated to how we
are right now, and plan to stay that way. Some¬
thing hardcore needs more of!

MRR: Tell me about Bunt.

Jimmy: Bunt is just me, my guitar and a drum
machine. I started it when I realised that Strike Out
needed an opening band when we played here
in Cooperstown, because the shows are too short.
L. Drive: Way too short!

Jimmy: I make up songs on the spot. Just, you
know, about the scene and how I feel. Pretty
much about my life.

Will: It's reallyawful!

Jimmy: Terrible, maybe... but at least people are
getting their money's worth.

MRR: Any closing sfatements?

Jimmy: Look out for Strke Out!

Will: Come to Cooperstown and check out our
scene. It's unlike anything you've ever seen be¬
fore. We usually have games right after the shows,
so come and get involved, we challenge any
other band to a game of hardball.

Jimmy: We know how good we are as long as
we're doing what's true to us.

WillrStay straight and support the crew or team!
Soon, we're gonna be in your face!

L. Drive: Right!

Cooperstown, NY 13326

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INTERVIEWS

Interview at Epicenter Zone with
Monsula. who is: Bill - bass: Scott - drums: Paul
- vocals; Chuck - guitar. By Karin and Lance.
And with Paul (#?). too.

MRR: Let’s start with the name. Yeah, what the
hell does Monsula mean?

Paul: It's the name of Juan Valdez' donkey.
MRR: Ahh, right.

Paul #2: Liar. liar, pants on fire.

MRR: Alright, who came up with the name?
Paul; Our very first guitarist.

MRR: And what did It mean?

Chuck: It's Chinese for the Green Giant.
Paul: No. It's just this phrase he's had in his
head since he was real little. Whenever the
Jolly Green Giant would come on TV. he
would say, "Monsula, monsula.molla gween
bean.' Molla. molla gween bean.

MRR: Why did you stick with It?

Paul: I like It because it doesn't mean any¬
thing at all. you know. It's not like saying, oh.
we're like a fucking raging metal-nead
band. Like names that already mean some¬
thing.

MRR: How did this all come together then?
You were In Poultry Magic, and there are a lot
of other things you folks are Involved In.

Chuck: All three of us...

Paul #2: Poultry Magic was the first Benicia
band and they were the only band for a
while and then they broke up and then Paul
started Monsula, klnda. and I encouraged
him, and that's the reason Monsula Is any¬
thing today. ( laughter )

Bill: Well, Paul (#2) plays on half the record but j
then I kicked his butt...

MRR: What Is the connection, then, with you
and the Sklnflutes, and what happened first?
Paul: Monsula started losing members — we
lost Paul because he went to Ireland and we
lost our drummer... well, we kind of booted
him in a way.

Bill: See what happened, the Sklnflutes first
didn't have a drummer because our old
metal-head drummer quit. So we wanted a
drummer, and we heard through the grape
vine that Scott played drums.

Paul: But he was our guitarist and singer.

Bill: So he played drums and we called him
up and said, "Do you want to play drums?'
And he told us about this winning band.
Monsula, that he sings and plays guitar for
and how he's teaching the other members
how to play. So he played for us for about a

1 month and then he quit Monsula just to play
l with the Sklnflutes. So ho played with us for a

year, and then Paul (#2, mind yoO left
Monsula to go to Ireland, and all this time
Monsula had been stagnating along...

All: No, no! (laughter)

Bill: ... going through different band mem¬
bers. After Paul left. I started playing bass.
They kicked Chuck's brother out from play¬
ing drums.

Paul: Well, he kind of screwed up his arm
really bad so that he couldn't play for a
couple months. So that's when Scott started
playing drums.

MRR: So how did you end up In Monsula?
Paul: I was the first person.

MRR: You were the original singer?

singing, and this guy Pete playing guitar. We
didn't have a drummer.

Paul #2: And they had stickers, so that made
them a real band.

MRR: So how did you end up playing guitar?

Paul: Well, we were sitting in the car one night
and Mike turned around and said to Pete,
"You know that band you're not In?' And he
was like, what, what. And we said. ’You
know. That band, you're not in it.' And we
kicked him out.

Chuck: He turned Into a skinhead.

Bill: So Scott, drummer, started playing guitar
before he quit to Join the Sklnflutes ana then
rejoin later.

Paul #2: Poultry Magic paved the way for the
Benicia scene, put Benicia on the map.
(mouth farts abound)

Chuck: It's true.

Paul: I could've started the band without
Poultry Magic being around...

Chuck: We were first, though.

MRR: How did you wind upln Monsula then?
Paul: Chuck walked Into Scott's house and
said. * Hey I'll play guitar, too,' and he started
playing second guitar.

Bill: And then finally a couple months ago
Paul or Scott asked him to be In the band.
(laughter)

MRR: I guess an obvious question to ensue
from all this is how do you avoid an inces¬
tuous sound that might easily develop, with
all these members being shared?

Bill: Wo all sound completely different.

Paul #2: There's different song writers.

Scott: Yeah. Mike (Fuel) writes a lot of the
Sawhorse songs. Sawhorse, not Sklnflutes
anymore — formerly the Skinflutes.

MRR: But he writes a lot for Fuel too, right?
Bill: We would probably sound like Fuel if we
could play like they can. but we aren't as
good as they are so we don't sound like
them.

Scott: Besides, the Sklnflutes (Sawhorse)
singer. Scott, is totally unique with his voice.

MRR: But as far as Monsula, you’re pretty
different than both of those bands.

Paul: We're kind of like losers.

MRR: No, not at alll It’s like you have a really
different kind of sound, though. You have a
lot more melodic-type stuff, a lot more
straightforward stuff.

Paul: it's like we never were trying to come up
with any sound, it Just happened on acci¬
dent.

MRR: Who writes songs for Monsula?

Scott: Everybody does.

Paul: Someone will come up with something
and wo'll all generate off It. I write all the
words, though. Except Paul wrote words to
one song.

MRR: Even beside from the musical sound
and the fact that people are going to lump all
three bands together, Is It a problem as far as
playing or as far as practicing?

Paul: No. it makes It easier because Monsula
and Sawhorse practice In the same place.
When we play shows together we already
have half the equipment set up. And It
makes things a lot easier for tour. too.

Monsula and Sawhorse? I heard a lot of talk
about that.

Paul: I think that's all It was, a lot of talk.

Bill: No, no — one side of the Skinflutes 7* (new<
on Lookout) and one side of the Monsula 7*J
(ditto), the pre-Ireland Paul side, were going
to be the split 7‘.

Paul: We were going to do It because we
didn't think we were going to do anything
else, and then Lawrence came up and
asked us to do stuff. David Hayes did, and we
put that on the back burner and If It ever 1
lights up again...

Paul #2: So anybody who's In a band now: if
you record your own stuff. It makes it two
thousand billion times easier to make a
record. Don't wait for somebody to offer you
It.

MRR: Let’s talk about the vinyl that you do
have out. Monsula’s on the Very Small
“Coffee” 7' comp. What’s the "Money Fakes
the World” song about?

Paul: I watched the news that day and got
hell of pissed off at ail the people on the news
and the shitty stories they were covering -
there was hell of more Important stuff out
there. I just got really mad; I always get mad
when I watch the news.

MRR: What are your lyrics in general about?
Are they political that way?

Paul: Some of them are —

Bill: They're about being depressed.

Paul: Nol ... That's a hard one. They're like
political within myself. And then like about
girls. Like “Missing You,' a couple other ones.
MRR: What is "Razors” about? That song really
seems to stand out on the 7".

Paul: 'Razors' Is about all those peoi_ _
walking around hell of depressed andfuckin'
"Oh. I m gonna fuckin slit my wrist and
fuckin' shoot my head off' and they're
dwelling on the fact of suicide and how
wonderful It would be. ‘Cause there's hell of,
people like that in Benicia and it makes me
sick. So It's kind of a joke, to get back at them
sort of.

MRR: Have any of the rest of you thought
about writing lyrics? (laughter) No, I didn’t
mean it that way. No, like do you feel com¬
fortable about being spokesperson for the
band?

Paul: I've never really wanted to... I never
even really wanted to write lyrics for the
band. I know Chuck's been Interested in
writing some.

MRR: Do the lyrics ever filter through the band
— like do the rest you ever react to some
thing and say, "No way, this isn’t how I feel,
don T t want you to sing this line.”

Bill: We generally agree on a lot of the same
principles, so wo don't really have conflicting
views on things.

Scott; But there aren't any overly opinion¬
ated lyrics anyway.

Paul: I try not to write anything that would
make people say, ‘Oh, you're wrong' or
'Oh, you're right.'

MRR: What do you think Is more important for
Monsula, the music or the lyrics?

Paul: 1 think MC Hammer.

MRR: Can’t touch this.

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MRR: What happened when you moved to
Lookout? How did that happen?

Paul: We didn't kinda really move. Itseemsto,
me like we're not really on any record label.
’Cause like we go to the studios, put out the
music for them, and then we never hear from
them. Until it comes out and they show up in
our bedrooms.

MRR: But did Lawrence approach you about
this? Did he say. I really want Monsuia to be
on Lookout.

Paul: Yeah, he did. but It's just kind of weird.
It's just not what I thought it'd be all about.
MRR: How Is this different than being on the
Very Small comp?

Paul: I kind of think it's the same.

MRR: What do you want to do eventually? Do
you want to sign with a label, do you want to
do It yourself? What are your plans?

Paul: I guess we haven't thought about It
much.

Scott: The record hasn't even come out yet.
MRR; I’ve been listening to the test press for
the past few weeks, and one thing I noticed
Immediately Is thatyou come through really
well on vinyl. How does this all come to¬
gether? I mean. I’ve seen you live and I’ve
heard you on record, and the energy is really
there. Is It a lot different for you to put all this
onto a piece of recording tape?

Paul #2: Yeah, ‘cause you can do It over
again — you can get it right! it's hard to do it
perfect.

Chuck: 1 like playing live a lot better. I'm not
very comfortable being on a record. I don't
think that for me. where I'm at or where the
band's at. I really don't feel ready for It all the
time. I mean I'm glad that we ve got the
chance to do it because It means a lot to
me... I don't mind playing live because... you
like It or you don't like, but It's over with.

Paul #2: So would you rather not have a
record and have lots of people see you live
all the time?

Chuck: I don't know. I've never been In either
position. ( laughter )

Bill: This is all kind of really new for us.

Chuck: I'm mean, not a whole lot of people
come to see us play, but I don't know how
many people are going to buy the record.
Paul #2: It seems to me like you're In a band
and you practice for a long time and you
play songs — and you think it's going to be
really different when you get a record. You
think it's going to be a bla turning point, and
then you get ir. I'm mean it's nice it came out.
but It's really no different.

Chuck: Right. It wasn't what I expected. I
didn't get The feeling personally — everyone
else seems to like it — but for me it's not as
satisfying as I would have liked It.

MRR: Well, you’re never going to be com¬
pletely satisfied with a record no matter how
much time you spend with It. — Yeah, just ask,
Lance. — Thanks, I hate all of our records.

( laughter ) Are you satisfied, though, for the
most part, with how It came out? The produc¬
tion... It’s pretty good, and the songs are
pretty strong... They’re totally great.

Scott: With the Monsuia 7" you have to re¬
member that one side Is with the original
drummer and Paul (#2) as bassist, and the
other side Is with me and Bill playing now. To
me it's two totally different bands on each
side. I'm not saying either band Is better — It's
just such a big change. I don't know how
people will react.

MRR: People who don’t know I think won’t
notice. The vocals are the same.

Paul: Most people will only notice vocals.
MRR: First thing I noticed was the guitar Is way
beefier on the second side.

Chuck: Right, because we were spending
Lawrence s money. On the old side I wasn”
there for mixing, so I was really upset.

Paul: The first slae has no guitar overdubs, the !
second side does.

Scott: All I can say is that Kevin Army Is the mix
master.

Paul: He's the raddest dude around. \
MRR: One thing I noticed was seeing you;
various times live, I’ve seen almosta different!
band on stage. I’m not sure... It might be you, |
Paul, coming though as a vocalist a lot dif¬
ferent from snow to show. Does this depend
upon your mood? For Instance, I’m thinking
about the show in Tucson with Fugazl — that
was like a real serious side to Monsuia — and
then that same weekend the show In Isla
Vista — where you guys were just like kooks.
(lots of laughs here)

Scott: For me It depends upon the atmo¬
sphere, the way the crowd Is reacting. It
determines how I feel. In Tucson it just
seemed really strange to me — really alien to
me. But In Isla Vista, it was such a relaxed
atmosphere. Everybody was just kicked
back In the sun, Tm having a good time/
which shot back to me as. well, this Is cool; I
can goof off. People are having a good
time. It's total atmosphere for me for how I

Bill: I think also a big part of this Is we hadn't
slept for 24 hours before we played with
Fugazl. and then we hadn't slept for 48 hours
\ before Isla Vista. So It didn't really matter
anymore how tired we were. After 24 hours
you just get kind of somber — I wish I could go
to bed. And then when have to do some¬
thing like play a show, you try to give It your all
and It doesn't quite work. But after not
sleeping for like two or three days... It's easier
or something because you don't care.
Playing a show has a certain kind of feel to It.
and you're not caring what's It's going to feel
like.

MRR: So you’re going to stay up for the whole
tour? i

All: That last show... ( laughter)

MRR: Scott, you were talking about your re¬
action to the crowd and like the last time you
played at Gilman, there were a lot people
there — I thought there was a good feeling in

INTERVIEWS

the audience — but again, I thought the
band was acting totally different.

Bill: Right. Paul wasn't In a very good mood.
Paul: That was a very strange day because I
was In a horrible mood and It rubbed off on
everyone else. I didn't even really want to
play, which is kind of stupid.

Scott: All of us were trying to hold together as
best we could to make it through the show
because it was definitely a rough 10 minutes
before we were supposed to go on.

Bill: We were also being rushed a lot — Mike
(Fuel) Klrsch, that nazl stage manager...
( laughter ) Five minutes, go, go.

MRR: You could tell It was tense on stage
when you folks weren’t looking at each
other, and after each songs you’d go bang,
bang, bang (guitar motion). Walk over to the
drum kit and walk away. Bang, bang. That
was still a really good show, though. We
' should talk a bit about that weekend you did
— was it a good first experience on the road?
All: Yeah, great.

Paul: I learned how to drive a stick.

Chuck: Especially with Fuel after a stress-
felted leave — leaving Tucson two hours
1 after they did and catching up with them
after we were on the road for two hours.

1 Paul: That's because I'm Captain Fast.

| Bill: And we pulled into this gas station...

! Chuck: I was the first one out of the truck. 1
! came out yelling at Mike for driving so slow,
i Bill: They just cursed at us and drove away,
i ( laughter )

| Paul: But the point Is I learned how to drive a
i stick the day before and I drove for 11 hours
1 straight from Tucson to Santa Barbara —

[ Capt. Fast. I was like hell of happy.

Scott: It was definitey a good experience
because none of us had really been “away"

1 for a show. The farthest we had ever played
was Santa Barbara or Sacramento, and It
was Just totally playing to different faces, a
different area — it was all really new.
j Paul: Plus you're a lot more relaxed when
1 you're not dealing with the home and a
locked door, sleeping on the U-Haul and the
sidewalk and stuff. You don't have to care
much.

Bill: Like the night after driving from Tucson to
i Santa Barbara we got there at like 3:30 in the
. morning and we went to this park and fell
; asleep on the sidewalk and in the street while
Fuel went to some guy's house.

MRR: What happened with that — did you
folks end up sleeping on the beach or
something?

Bill: We slept in the park. It was Isla Vista's
^version of People's Park.

MRR: That’s the glamorous road story?

1 Scott: We were frying to be courteous to the
guy who was putting on the show. We didn't
want to call him up at 4 and say. “Ah, we're
here."

Bill: The two factions of the tour. ( laugher )
MRR: What was It like playing with the rival?
Paul: I think we were all kind of nen/ous.

Bill: It was actually one of the few shows I felt
nervous.

Scott: I think it was because we were playing
with Fugazl.

Paul: For me It was looking at all these
weirdos in the audience yelling at me — It
was really an uncomforting crowd, and
playing miles and miles away from home.
Scott: It wasn't »ke a mean crowd or any¬
thing.

Paul: There was a bunch of drunk people.
Bill: Also we had planned the show for like
about months so everyday we thought, “Oh.
boy, this Is going to be a cool show." And we
just thought about It so much that we built It
up In our heads into something bigger than It
was.

MRR: So you had more fun In Isla Vista out¬
doors?

Scott: Yeah, that was definitely a high point
, Just 'cause for some obscure reason we were
clicking together and the energy In the band
was really nigh. Total goofbails.

, Paul #2: You guys were totally beyond your-
. selves. You got to the point where you were
really great and you guys got greater than
you actually were. ( laughtei )

MRR: And the crowd reaction was better for
Monsula than any other band that day.

, Paul: People really got Into.

MRR: Yeah, they wouldn’t let you off the
■ stage!

Paul: People were actually dancing instead
of moshing and banging their heads.

. Bill: They were rolling down the hill.

: Paul: It was cool, because everyone was so
f relaxed — It wasn't this mosh-rock thing.
Scott: It wasn't a type of show where ev-
! erybody had to be more punk than others;
j everyone was out doing their own thing.

| Paul: I don't think there were more than like
; five punks there.

; Scott: There was this one real pale guy with

blue half. —

MRR: With blue hands. — This must be pre¬
paring you pretty well for the tour. Do you
think you can deal with each other for a
whole month?

Bill: I think we will, because we argue and
bicker constantly but that's how we get
along. So If somebody's bugging we don't
let it catch up — we just yell at each other.
We make a joke of It. Especially since It's
Sawhorse and Monsula we're all always to¬
gether, so It's like being together's not going
to bother us much.

Paul: As long as I get to drive.

MRR: You leave the 16th of June...

Scott: A show In Isla Vista...

Paul: It's a hell of cool scene down there.
MRR: Are you kind of intimidated — I mean,
the record’s not even out and you’re going
on tour.

Scott: I think we'd go on tour whether the
record was out or not.

Paul: We kind of jump into things without
really thinking much.

MRR: Isn’t it hard to get shows without a
record or anything?

Bill: Not really. A lot of people ask us to send
them something. So we just send them a
tape of the stuff we recorded.

! Paul #2: Just from being in the Bay Area...

, Chuck: All we have to do when we're
i booking is say we're from the East Bay.
Mention Lookout Records and people will
book you. ( laughter )

Bill: Mention David Hayes. Tell them David
Hayes gave you their number and they'll
book you.

Paul #2: Name drop! Name drop! Yeah, Tim
Yohannan was telling me and David Hayes
while we're with Lawrence Livermore ... we
were all hanging out In this coffee shop.

( laughter )

Bill: Punk Icons.

Paul #2: We were talking with Jello Blafra
when Ian showed up.

MRR: What other bands In the area do you
feel connected with? Is that a myth about
how all the East Bay bands hang out to¬
gether?

Chuck: I do. I think I'm the only one who really
hangs out.

Paul: No, I do too.

Scott: I don't.

MRR: You still get lumped as an East Bay
band.

Scott: Don't lump us as an East Bay band!
Chuck: There's so much variation even be¬
tween East Bay bands.

MRR: Not Just with music. But as friends or as
people.

All: Oh yeah. We're all friends.

Scott: I don't really see how we could be
lumped as an East Bay band.

MRR: Do you feel you’re part of that scene?

Ail: Yeah.

MRR: You (to Chuck) used to work at
Gilman...

Chuck: I still do. 1 just got out of school. I'm
about to go back. For a few months I've
been in school.

MRR: That pretty much puts you on top of
what’s going on there.

Chuck: Bill used to work there too.

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Rich: It's a pretty tight group. It's like a family.

Ralph: Everyone knows each other.

MRR: Are there any bands that you feel espe- ^
daily close to?

Nicole: Confrontation.

Rich: Confrontation especially.

Ralph: We've been together with them for
years now. They're like our brother band.

Nicole: Started out with them In backyard
parties.

Rich: Then there's Absolution. But they broke
up.

MRR: They broke up?

Ralph: That's where we got John.

MRR: Right after the EP came out, you broke
up? (laughter)

John: Yup. (laughs)

MRR: That EP was so good too.

John: You got one?

Ralph: They were the grunge gods.

Rich: They were the kings of grmdcore.

Ralph: All Systems Gone.

MRR: All Systems Gone too?

Ralph: No. they didn't break up. They're per¬
sonal faves. (laughs)

Rich: Still keeping with the other question.

MRR: (to John) How did you end up In Apoca¬
lypse?

John: Absolution used to play with Apoca¬
lypse from way back. As a matter of fact one
of the singers played bass with them a long .
time ago', (laughs) So we always had con-
nections. When we broke up...

Rich: It was a natural progression.

John: Yeah. I was talking to Rich and he was
saying that they needed another guitar
player. '<■ :

MRR: Not to dwell on Absolution, but why did
you break up?

John: A bunch of different reasons. Everyone
was growing In different directions. No hard
feelings or fights. Nothing like that. Just kind of
growing in different directions.

MRR: I remember when I was down there, *

B eople would always tell me, “Well, A//SoIu-
on hasn’t played around for a long time. But *
they’re still around somewhere.” (laughter)

John: We went through periods for like a few
months when we wouldn't even practice. .

Then all of a sudden we would come back .
twice as strong. Then we got this drummer W
Kevin who really got the band going again.

But that just klnda fell apart after a while.

MRR: So you’re pretty happy with Apoca¬
lypse now? V..V,

John: Yeah. ~

MRR: Who writes the lyrics? *

Rich: Ralph does.

MRR: You write all the lyrics?

Ralph; Yeah, pretty much these days. It's not
as blatant as before. It's not as outwardly &
anti-war. anti-thls.antl-that... It's a lot of word %
play these days. I like to have fun with what /

I'm writing. I'm writing from the heart now. It's
not just because I read something off of a
Crass album or something.

MRR: Or worse a Discharge album. Three :
lines.

Ralph: Discharge haiku! (laughter)

MRR: I was noticing that there’s a pretty big JJ. •
difference between “Technodoom” where
the lyrics are a lot more direct to the split EP «g|§
, you had where the lyrics are a lot more
personal.

■ Ralph: “Beauty* and “This Sad Face.*

■ MRR: Yeah, there’s a real difference. Is this H
change In how you write?

Ralph:! get a lot of flack from the other band B
[ members in Joking way. But i don't know. We H
[write what we feel. Or at least how I feel.

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MRR: Do you folks ever think about writing
stuff?

Nicole: Yeah, I'm trying to. But as soon as I
graduate from high school.

MRR: Even so, I’ve seen you sing with them
twice. Are you singing more with them?
Nicole: Yeah, I’m beginning to. I'd like to work
on more stuff.

Ralph: For us, Nicole Is like the calm In the
storm. We want to be the Insanity, the inten¬
sity. But we want to have som e sort of serenity
too. We like that kind of conflicting idea. It
shows on our vinyl when she's on it. We like
that kind of serenity.

MRR: Like on “Technodoom" there’s a real
clear change from the beginning and then
all of a sudden...

Ralph: We like that kind of... It's almost like a
contradiction. Just the way things are stated.
It's reflected in the music.

MRR: What Is that song about’ Are you anti¬
technology in general?

Ralph: Me personally, I won't speak for the
whole band, myself, yes. I am. A lot of tech-1
nology is doing as much harm as it's doing |

• good. A lot of old ways and old Ideas are 3
. being lost and forgotten. Ways which are |

proven and safe and are all around healthy |
and natural for us. They're being lost in the 8
technological age. Technodoom is on the
rise.

MRR: Also on the record, you talk a lot about.
the swastika and what it’s supposed to mean. *

. Did you get a lot of flack from it?

Ralph: Actually, we've got no negative re¬
sponses from It. We've got a lot of positive
: responses from it. The swastika has obviously >
been around for, god. centuries. I don't
know. It's something that got a really bad
rap. It's really a positive symbol.

MRR: Just so people don’t get confuse, what
does it mean?

Ralph; The swastika means a lot of different $
things. Surprisingly, it's been used In many <
different cultures. It can be seen In... Ameri¬
can Indian culture used it. Oriental culture
used it.

Nicole; Buddhist.

Ralph: Buddhist. Scandinavian. It's a mysteri¬
ous symbol that everyone picked up on. •
» That's one strange thing about it that kind of
. attracted me to it. I don't know, everyone
used in a positive way. All these different
.. cultures. *

i MRR: Yeah, until the ’40s. (laughter)
s Nicole: ‘Til young Adolph.

MRR: So, you’re not a fascist band.

Rich: Hopefully not. (laughter)

: MRR: Have you folks ever thought about writ¬
ing lyrics?

Rich: I just concentrate on the music. Ralph
' basically shares the same Ideas as I do. I Just
let him handle all the reigns and I'll take care
of my part.

MRR: Do you feel comfortable with Ralph
being sort of like the mouth of the band? \

Rich: It's his ideas, but his ideas are more or \
l less cultivated by the whole band anyway. 5
l That's what brought us together basically ■

* was the sharing or Ideas. So one voice. It's ■
good.

MRR: Have you ever been In a situation
where you felt, "I don’t like that. I wish he
would change that."

Rich: No.

Ralph: For me it does. I get self-conscious
sometimes. Because people will look at what
I'm saying and what I'm writing and say.
*God, that's pretty sappy. That's pretty
weak.* Then I get self-conscious about It. But

. . .•> .>

; Ilk© I said, I write from the heart and there's
nothing stronger than that.

* MRR: Now for the worst question of all. I was &
Just talking with Subvert about this. There’s
this term floating around called "peace ,

* punk". Do you Think of yourselves as a

*. peace-punk band? What doyou think of that '
label? .

Ralph: Well, when we first started out, we
were admittedly a blatant, peace punk,
filthy type of band.

Nicole: We still holdthe same morals they are
<,>.>: known for. Like we're all vegetarians.

':••• Ralph: The older you get. the more you re-
l- $ allze, 'God, what does it mean on the out- v
side?'It doesn't mean half the shit as what's t-
: on the Inside. >>‘

* John: And there's no pacification going on.
Ralph: Whether you're growing your hair or
it's in dreads. What's the difference? It's all
inside of you. That's what punk rock Is sup¬
posed to be originally about anyway. But I <;

• don't know. Personally for me, I like having
my hair long and clean, (laughter)

v. Rich: I wouldn't consider us peace punk. But **•
. ■ In a way, that's good because we do share

the same positive ideas and at least we're In
v :; good company.

Ralph: Confrontation Is a peace crust bandl
(laughs)

John: We're for peace. Of course, we want
there to be peace. But we're not pacifists'

: x > either. We're not gonna say we're a peace
punk band.

MRR: It sorta connotes this sedate Image.:
That doesn’t seem to be the case. Anyway,
you were saying you were all vegetarians. Is:
that a big Issue for the band?

Nicole: For me personally it Is. It's the way we
live our lives, ft's not just our diet. It's the way
we are.

Ralph: Besides, we probably woudn't be
nearly as Intense live If we weren't vegetar¬
ians. (laughter)

Nicole: With meat rotting your colon.

Ralph; It makes us feel healthy and cleaner.

It's a positive part of our lives.

Nicole: Instead of a greasy burger, you can,
have a clean carrot.

John: It's a big economical thing.

Ralph: Oh definitely.

John: You want to do something for the i
animals, it's also wanting to do something for
the people. Because the whole Industry of
meat Itself Is a downfall as far as people go.

To me. It's probably 50/50.1 feel for the an!-
mats too. But I also look at everything that's
going on and l look at the economical as- <•
pect of it. That would make me do it alone v-
- even if I didn't give a shit about the animals, x

Which I do. (laughter) But If I didn't. I wouldstlll
be a vegatarlan.

MRR: It’s good to think of It that way too.
People ofTen think of animals as one issue
and people as another when In the big .
scheme of things, It’s all connected.

' John: I've heard people say really stupid x .
remarks like. '1 don't give a fuck about that
animal’ or what not. But they're not even *'

. thinking about what else that really means *•
/>. • when you're buying meat. What else goes
Into that. They don't know. It's a simple prob- ^
lem of uneducated people.

MRR: Is that a big Issue for people that Join
Apocalypse? would someone join that
wasn’t a vegetarian?

< Ralph: God, we never thought about that. .•
Nicole: It doesn't matter. We're very open-
minded. *

Rich: I don't see why not. *

Ralph: It's just that our way of thinking was so
x v ■ much the same that when we got together. : .

* *%• we we're all vegetarians.

Nicole: We didn't even know. They didn't ;
know I was a vegetarian.

Ralph: Even all our roadies and friends are
vegetarians too. A basic respect for life Irv

* eludes not consuming other animal lives. It's :
. •' • a basic all-around concern for life.

MRR: Now, you folks aren’t exactly pacifists.

* Most folks I know that have changed from
pacifists to at least believing In self-defense,
a lot of It has to do with confrontations with

. nazi skinheads.

* All: Yeah.

John: Try to avoid them at all cost because
• r ‘ : S* It's really not worth It to let them get your
‘ * goat. But If you're backed into a corner go
back, we're going to go back.

MRR: Yeah, It’s not worth getting beat up
•; over.

John: No. You're not going to teach them ..
anything because they're already set In their r- :
ways, ins not going to make a difference. If
you have to ao something...

MRR: Are there ever big stand-offs down

there In Orange County? It seems like If you .
have a thriving progressive community as %
well as a center for a lot of nazi stuff...

Rich: Oh yeah. Just a few weeks ago as a . >

matter of fact we had...

Nicole: A little falling out.

Rich: A little falling out with a couple of . :
skinheads. It didn'tTurn to violence. We tried ...
to keep our cool. But after all of It happened,
we cooled down and thought about it. if

theypushedusbackagalnsttnewalllikethat

night, we would have fought back. It's get¬
ting ridiculous and it glvos them a sense of
power that they can do It again. Not many
people stand up to it. so we ve got to do it. m> .,
MRR: Also, they might start singling you folks
out. There was even talk tonlgnt that a lot of
nazi skinheads were going to come to the

Ralph: We had a huge problem with that in
Las Vegas.

MRR: Really?

Nicole: Bomb threats.

John: They Just figure that bands like us Just £
have to pay. Every band I've been in has .
been pretty outspoken against them. #
Someone’s got to do it. Not to get off the &

subject too much, but that's how it started In .

Germany with a small group of people that ^
Intimidated the majority. They let themselves >£•
be Intimidated, but had they In the begln-
, ning said 'fuck this' and went against them,
they probably could have prevented the
whole thing from happening.

MRR: Even here, people don’t like to think
l that It’s a problem. They figure It’s Just a few
people. But just a few people can do a lot of
damage.

I John: If you want to look at it from that
I perspective. It is a small group of people that
are like that. But even that small group I
would consider to be a big problem.

Rich: Racism should always be considered a
big problem no matter what scale it's In.

MRR: Have you folks had any problems being
Aslan In the band?

' Rich: No. not really.

■ Ralph: A lot of people seem to accept It
which Is one of the good things about being
Involved with this type of scene.

. Rich: But we do get pigeon-holed as the
Sothlra look-a-likes.

Ralph: Yes. or even Death Angel.

Rich: Yeah, a couple times.

Ralph: Forget that.

MRR: How do you feel about being labeled as
Death Angel’s clones?

t Ralph: Not necessarily Death Angel, but it
does Irritate us... Ml

Someon'e fn a car: Hey, are you folks on
Earache?

# Ralph: Stuff like that, (laughs) We get pigeon- ■

y holed a lot as being a metal band Just be-

~ • cause of our hair. It s kind of funny because

• all these punk rockers that are supposed to ,i

v . * be open-minded about how you look and 4 : $

* act turn around and say that you're this or

y . you're that and put you down. It's really a * :

•: waste of time and a waste of energy.

*■';• Rich: Especially when we all basically have

the same attitudes anyway. They don't go >
beyond what you look like.

Ralph: Years ago, ail our hair was standing ty* :

• straight up too.

MRR: One thing I wanted to ask you (to
Nicole) have you ever been harassed? I :*%
* mean with a hardcore scene, Itcan be pretty

Intimidating being a woman. £y

Nicole: No. one guy was lust all,'Hey baby.'

But other than that, most of them are pretty
cool and they think I have guts.

MRR: I would have thought that with you
W & reading poetry between songs sometimes : ■&:
“ they get...

$ • Nicole: A little bit restless. A couple times •:

. when I was reading poetry. But nothing that ;

; would distract me because I was trying to

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Important. So I kept at It. >.’*

X MRR: What are some of your other lyrics :$
about? What made you write ’’Beauty’’?

Ralph: That was my reaction to how other ?*'•.,

; people treat each other. It's sort of sad. It's i
depressing In a way. * 5

MRR: Like in what context?

Ralph: Well, stabbing someone In the back : > : :-
and misusing someone's trust, taking advan- x./ :
.•.*£*: : y - tage of certain people. And that's sad.

MRR: Was there any specific instance that
brought that on? That seemed like a really
; strong song on the record. .

Ralph: Yeah, butthat's really personal. That's .0.
,,,. ••& for people's Interpretation. The same with

‘This Sad Face.' -

MRR: What are you going to do next? I guess
you’ve got another 7" coming out. ^

Ralph: Yeah, we're doing another T with <
^ ••• Crust Records and there's healthy talk about . : ‘x

doing an LP.

MRR: Yeah, what happened with you folks
> doing something with Over The Top? > .

& Rich: That's kina of a touchy subject. It fell *
through after a while. We released our two •; < .
^ EPsthen magically we heardfrom him again. ■ ^

He said he had our reels and wanted to press c-
them. Actually I think he's already pressing .
them.

Ralph: Three years after the fact.

Rich: 1 don't mind. It's just more music out
there. More Ideas out there. As long asTT.-x
people know that'snot the direction we rein
now. As long as he stresses it'sthree years old. ^

Ralph: At the time we thought that could
have been the EP that would do things for us. ft WS
But once again, we had some line-up -xx^:
changes, which were for the better. But it
kept the band down and relatively unheard
of.

MRR: Well, the Maximum comp got to a lot of
people and I get a lot of mall about it.

Ralph: Yeah, that was really good for us. We
felt really honored to be recognized.

MRR: (laughing) Oh God, you folks have
v . been around for so long, If you weren’t on the

record it would be ridiculous. Apocalypse
was definitely one band that had to be on the

• record.

Ralph: For years we've done our thing being
part of political groups, going to protests and

( doing as much as we can. It's just nice to
finally be recognized for It.

MRR: Even though your lyrics are more per
sonal, do you still think of yourselves as a
political band?

\ Ralph: Yeah.

[ Rich: It's all still there. It'sJust not as outspoken
[ as it once was.

I MRR: What do you think of labels like anar
chist? Is that something you’re comfortable
I with?

\ John: Nah. I wouldn't personally say so. I
[ don't know if what people perceive as anar
I chy as being a solution to all our problems.

I There's human nature for people to want to
I strive to ahead and get above other people.

• In anarchy It's supposed to be everyone
^ working for the community. I don't believe
that it can happen because of human na¬
ture. I believe In peace. I think there can be
a peaceful way of life without nuclear weap¬
ons. But I don't believe that there will ever be
a way of life without humans wanting to get
ahead.

Ralph: Don't mistake us. We've all studied
the books and studied the theorists. Now In

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More broken men. More broken lives. This sad face takes you down.
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the part. Children perishing. Never given the chance. This final vision,
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pay the rent, go to work, do this, do that.
MRR: Do you think that the competition Is
something that could be unlearned?

John: I'm starting to think It's all Just human
nature for you to want to get ahead. It's not
necessarily and unbeatable thing, but It's
something that will always be there.

MRR: There are a lot of people who don’t think

■i N will happen but still agree with the prtn-
' clples.

Rich: Yeah, I take it to a personal level.
John: There are a lot of good things about It.
That would be great. What anarchy Is meant
to be Is everyone contributing and doln
their part for the good of the whole. I wouL
say yeah. I would be totally for It. But If you
look at It realistically, that can't happen be¬
cause there are people that want to get
ahead and there are people that won't
want to do anything. Then the people who
are doingjmore will say.shouldn't I be getting

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? society will go back to the way it is now. i do.i
think you should strive for peace and for
. what's best for you and the people around
, you. But I don't think thore can be anarchy.

: Ralph: Respect Is a key word.

;• MRR: Anarchy means so many different
' things now.

John: Yeah, sometimes people ask me that
and 1 don't know exactly what they mean by
anarchy.

MRR: It depends on what kind of hair they
: have, (laughter) “Areyou Into anarchy? I like
s the Exploited." (laughter) Do you have plans
i on going to Europe?

Rich: I guess Dan from Profane Existence
helped Nausea go to Europe this summer. I
was talking to him a while back and he asked
us If we wanted to go. He said he'd keep ail
his contacts for us. So hopefull/Europe next
summer,

MRR: I know what I was supposed to ask.
What Is the Long Beach Crust Crew? (laugh¬
ter)

Rich: It's a... well... hmmm... It's a bunch of
friends hanging out.

Ralph: Yeah, it s basically a bunch of friends

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that'have the same ideals and'share the
same interest in music. Just some good
friends of ours.

John: A lot of people that are considered
Long Beach Crust Crew do live in Orange
County too. (laughter)

MRR: Is it just a Joke?

John: Oh no. but It's not meant to be...
Ralph: Anything bigger than It sounds.
John:...a gang or anything. It's Just a bunch
of friends.

MRR: What do you know about the IMWU or
the WWMU? Do you have any connections
with them?

Rich: Yeah, we have connections with
Randy Tin Ear. He's helped us out. So has
Monique. The Infected, we're good friends
with thorn. They've helped us out In getting
glas but as far as the IMWU. once Ron left It all
fell Into place,

MRR: Did you know Ron Gould at all?

Rich: We've seen him and we've heard his
threats.

Ralph: Yeah, he threw some threats our way
ana we didn't even know the guy.

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For a SoCal punk bond that's been around
for over five years. the Offspring just haven't gotten
the attention they deserve. Mixing driving. hard
punk with Orange County melodic sensibilities, this
band is one of the best around. With one T and a
fantastic album, the Offspring are really worth look¬
ing out for both live and on vinyl. The band consists
of Brian - vocals, guitars; Ron - drums; Greg - bass;
Kevin - guitar. This interview was done outside of
Gilman St. by Lance. Kamala and Karin...

MRR: First of all, for a band as catchy, upbeat and
fun as you are, why do you live In Southern Califor¬
nia (laughter), and how can you stand It?

Kevin: Well, we're used to it. We all grew up there...
for better of for worse.

Brian: It's like being born a Hari Krishna. You just
don't know any other way. I don't know. Southern
California Is so spread out that you don't have a lot
of contact. It's not like a real community like it is up
here. We just try to avoid everybody, (laughter)
MRR: I heard that the nickname for Garden Grove Is
garbage grove.

All: (groaning) Yeah.

Kevin: That's a cute one.

MRR: Everyone talks about how shows are hard to
get. When you do have them, they’re these big
violent things. How do you put up with that?

Kevin: Actually we're starting to get more shows
now. We have a show lined up every weekend for
the next four weeks. There's hasn't been too much
violence lately. Except for Rico beating up some
guy with a spray can at the Anti Club. Why do we
live In Southern California? (laughter)

MRR: What do people think of you when you play
there? Are people receptive to the stuff you do?
You've been around for a few years now. Do you
feel like you’re making progress?

Kevin: More people have seen us up here because
we've gotten on some really good shows. Down
there, we just haven' t been that fortunate. The way
shows are promoted there are mostly through flyers
and record shops. And like Brian said, everything is
so spread out that you don't get to a real lot of
people.

Greg: It's not like word of mouth or anything.

MRR: Are you able to avoid this "pay to play" thing?
Kevin: Yeah, we have been. We had to do it once.
Brian: Yeah, we did it once because we thought it
would be worth It. It was with Dr. Know on New
Year's Eve. There were 20 people and they were all
people on the guest list, (laughter) We learned our
lesson.

Greg: A few people paid. But they were charging
like $14 or something.

MRR: Was that at the Balboa?

All: Yeah.

Kevin: It was supposed to be some New Year's Eve
bash. It was kinda fun actually because we got to
run around the back In the dressing rooms. It's kinda
like a dungeon in the back of this old theater. As far
as playing, we played great. It was probably the
best show we ever did. But there were just 14

people there.

MRR: Have you played any big shows? Have you
played at Fender's or anything?

Ron: Fender's doesn't really have shows anymore.
Brian: They still have shows in the back in the smaller
room.

Greg: We played at the TSOL reunion show.

MRR: How did you go over at that?

Brian: It was alright but we had to open up. There
weren't even as many people as were here. We
had to play so early.

Kevin: Maybe close to it. It was a bigger place. It's
funny we get compared to old TSOL so much. Then
we do this big reunion show and we get to open up
for them, (laughter - Suddenly, a car with no muf¬
fler goes roaring by.)

Kevin: Sorry, it must have been the burritos. (laugh¬
ter)

MRR: We’ll come back to the TSOL Influence later.

Kevin: Uh oh.

MRR: Have you ever thought about moving? We’ve
adopted you anyway. It seems like people are
more receptive to the things you’re doing up here.

Kevin: Shit, we're so used to driving up here when¬
ever we need to or want to.

Brian: I like Southern California actually.

Ron: You get used to it.

Brian: We have things going on down there. With
school. He's (Kevin) got a family.

Kevin: I've got a child so I don’t want to leave.
Brian: We're all going to school.

MRR: Since you brought It up, a lot of people do
compare you to old TSOL. Do you think that’s a
strong Influence?

Brian: Well, it was an influence a long time ago. I
don't really see it anymore. A lot of people don't.
The guy who produced our record, Tom Wilson,
produced TSOL. He said he noticed certain things.
He said there were things like certain guitar parts
and certain vocal parts. I don't know. I think Ka¬
mala had a good analogy. She said that people
kind of get it in their head. Then they start to listen for
it.

MRR: Then whaf bands would you compare your¬
selves to? As far as what you do...

Brian: I like Big Drill Car a lot. I think that what they're
doing is really neat.

Kevin: I don't think we sound like them.

Brian: No, no.

Kevin: I like them, too.

Brian: They're more light-hearted punk rock type of
thing. It's a little more poppy.

Kevin: I guess we are too. But I think we're oretty
different from them.

Brian: Yeah, but that kind of show is really fun to play
at. A really good kind of crowd goes to those kinds
of shows.

MRR: Are those bands that you play around a lot
with? What bands do you feel you’re connected
with?

Kevin: (laughs) We haven't developed any really
strong bonds with any bands.

Brian: We talk to Big Drill Car a lot. We used to kinda
hang around 647F. I don't know if you remember
them. But they broke up. That's about It.

MRR: That’s amazing. It seems like anytime I was In
a band, we made friends with other bands.

Brian: People aren't playing the stuff we play,
because either they're straight edge...

MRR: But around here. Green Day and Filth can
have a bond. It has nothing to do with the sound.
Just the community. On tour, Neurosis Is meeting up
with ail these bands like Green Day and Filth. It just
seems weird that you folks wouldn't develop any
ties with any other bands.

Kevin: We did with Distant Silence while we were on
tour. Oaughter) And also Dead Silence.

MRR: They were great.

Kevin: Yeah, they were.

Ron: We don't play enough with the same bands to
do that.

Brian: There are so many segregated sounds that
those are the bands that hang around together.
Either the speed metal types...

MRR: Do you think In Southern California It’s a lot
more rigid as far as people following around just
one type of band? Because over here, It seems that
everyone that lives In the East Bay hangs out to¬
gether...

Kevin: Yeah. I think there are a lot of factors that
come into play. Like Brian said. You have the
straight edge. You have the kind of experimental
punk rock. Then you have the Hollywood punk rock
thing like Tender Fury. Bands that I think have a
flashy image.

MRR: Well, a Hollywood type Image...

Kevin: Ron got to play with them. Ron got to be their
drummer. He sat in for Tony Sales.

Ron: No, It was Hunt Sales.

Kevin: That's right. He was Hunt Sales for five min¬
utes.

MRR: How did It feel? (laughter)

Ron: Oh, it was pretty intimidating.

Brian: It was Ron's 15 minutes of fame Andy Warhol
talked about.

Kevin: Well, it was five and a half of them, (laughter)
Ron: I didn't even know what they said until the
record came out.

MRR: (to Brian) Do you write most of the lyrics?
Brian: Pretty much most of them.

MRR: What Inspires you to write your lyrics? It seems
like you have two types. There are the socio-politi¬
cal lyrics. Then there are the, well, horror lyrics that
are good too.

Brian: Over a matter of time you have these weird
ideas and you make a song. When it comes to
making a record.you're just lumpingalt these things
together and it just kind of ended up that way.
Kevin: “Beheaded* was meant to be comical.
Almost kind of silly. But I don't think the music helps
it. The music is kind of dark and kind of serious.
Brian: We knew, unfortunately, that people were
gonna take the things seriously, the things we said
on the album. Like “Kill The President.'

—mms

Kevin: When we said, 'Kill the President,' we don't
want anyone to go out with a gun and kill the guy.
I don't like him. I don't want to say anything too
incriminating. The song is more about democracy.
Brian: Oh, that's good. Tell thousands of readers
you don't like the president when you're already
singing a song called ’“Kill the President.' (laughter)
Kevin: It's just a shock line.

Brian: The Dead Kennedy's did a lot of that. They
didn't necessarily mean that line, 'I kill children.'
The idea is to get you to look a little deeper into
what the songs are saying.

MRR: Still, some of your lyrics certainly have a... not
Just horror, but a fantasy side to them. Telling a story
and not just telling you something. What Influences
that? “Beheaded" was written by your old drum¬
mer, wasn’t It?

Kevin: Yeah, he wrote it with Brian. He was a lunatic.
He was really crazy. In a good way. I loved his
insanity. He was really funny. He would get these
ideas and it would be like, 'Yeah, yeah! Wrap the
head in a burlap sack!' He would get into that. It
was funny.

MRR: Are you folks comfortable with Brian doing a
lot of this? Would you say he’s the spokesperson for
the band?

Brian: Well, they still have veto power. And they use
it.

MRR: It seems like Brian Is the president. Ron Is the
senate. Greg Is the house.

Kevin: And I'm the janitor, (laughter)

MRR: It doesn’t seem like you want to write things. O r
you just feel very self-conscious about It.

Kevin: Well, you know how it is. It's frustrating. You
have an idea andyou justcan't get Itout. You know
you can do it. But then when you go to try and do
it... I guess I'm wimping out when 1 don't keep trying
to do it. I'd like to write and I get frustrated and just
throw it away. Scrap everything. I could stick with it
more and if I'm ever gonna do it that's what I'm
going to have to do.

MRR: How Important are the lyrics to the band?
There are a lot of bands that feel music can only
affect so many people, so the attitude or whatever
Is more Important. The music Is more Important.

Brian: 1 think the music Is more Important. That's

(lyrics) not the first thing that comes across. They just
want to hear the music. If they like It, maybe they'll
get into it.

MRR: How does the music come together? Does
one person bring In the songs?

Kevin: That would be Brian, (laughter)

Brian: Everyone kinda chips in and forms it together
once we get It Into practice.

MRR: Do you think everyone has a lot of Input as far
as how the songs turn out?

Kevin: I thinkso. I think that's trueforany band. Brian
will show us what he has in mind for a song and we
pretty much stick with that most of the time. But we
add our own things. We'll speed it up or slow it
down. We all come together on it. It's majority rule.
If we don't like it, we don't plcy it. We vote on what
songs we're going to play. How we're going to do
them.

Brian: Yeah, like '‘AThousand Days.' They made me
change "A Thousand Days.' They thought it was
stupid.

Greg: It was! (laughter)

Brian: Yeah, it was...

MRR: What happened with your first 7"? Did you do
It yourself? I see It floating around every so often...

Brian: We did it completely ourselves. We had been
around for a while and didn't know what to do.
MRR: How long have you been around for now?
Brian: It's over five years now. So we just did it
ourselves. We had no idea on how to do it. We
didn't do a very good job of getting it out. (laughs)
Kevin: We ended up giving them all away. Sending
them to radio stations.

Brian: We had a tough time getting it to distributors.
Nobody wanted 7"s back then. We still had some
45's up until about six months ago. We just couldn't
get rid of them.

MRR: How many did you do?

Brian: A thousand, (laughter)

MRR: How did you hook up with Nemesis?

Brian: They guy who was doing our record kinda
helps Nemesis out. We met him through Big Drill Car.
Frank from Nemesis heard about us throught the
guy that was doing our record. He just became
interested when he heard about it and put us on.
The guy who does Nemesis also does a lot of other

stuff. He put out the first Uniform Choice record. He
put out Bad Yodellers and some other stuff. We
were just going to go independent but we got on
Nemesis.

MRR: That’s good. They seem like they have their
shit together. Are you going to stick with them? Do
you know what you’re doing next?

Brian: Yeah, we need to write some new songs.
Kevin: The thing 1 like about this deal with Nemesis is
that we got to go into the studio. We put up the
money and got Tom to come in and do all this. We
liked him being there. He pointed out all this stuff
that we didn't see in ourselves. We had total con¬
trol..

Brian: Actually Nemesis didn't come till afterwords.
They were pretty much, 'Do whatever you want.'
Which was great.

Kevin: Yeah, so we gave it to him and he liked it. He
did, didn't he? (laughter) We felt good about that.
Being able to do our own thing and then give it to
them and have them appreciate it.

Brian: Frank has been really helpful to us. He got us
a couple really good shows. He's been pushing
things. He keeps the records up on the wall. He's
pushing to get the cassettes out and everything.
MRR: Are you happy with the record and the way it
turned out? I thought It was great.

Brian: Yeah. No one's ever completely happy.
Kevin: There are things that we would do a little dif¬
ferent now. Over all it came out pretty good.
Brian: Thanks to Tom.

Kevin: Yeah, thanks to Tom.

MRR: Yeah, I thought It was a really great record.
Greg: Thanks.

MRR: What are you going to do next? Are you going
to put out another album?

Brian: Eventually. We don't have any real immedi¬
ate plans except to go on tour.

MRR: Is there anything else you want to say that got
missed?

Kevin: We'd like to thank MRRforal! thesupport, the
good reviews.

MRR: Maximum Just facilitates. It facilitates people
that are doing stuff and good bands that are doing
things.

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This Interview with Grant Hart took place in
Italy, during his 'INTOLERANCE" EUROPEAN TOUR,
before his outdoor show at Macchia Nera in Pisa,
May 19, 1990. Interview by Enrico Cadena.

MRR: I thought It was you and a guitar, but you do
have a backing band.

Grant: No It's not a backing band, it's a band with
Grant Hart in it. It's called NOVA MOB. Michea!
Onego plays drums, Thomas Meirkl plays bass, the
tour so far has been terrific, tonight should be a
really good night, we played in nightclubs or con¬
cert halls, this is our first outdoor show, I have the
feeling people here are gonna be outrageously
fun.

MRR: Do you think they (the audience) come here
just because you were In HUSKER DU, or are they
here to see the new Grant Hart ?

Grant: I think they'll come here to see the new
Grant Hart because I used to be in HUSKER DU.
MRR: Did you change your musical style or your
songwriting since HUSKER DU days?

Grant: Well, I can'tsay no because that's discount¬
ing almost three years of growth as songwriter, the
music has changed while I was in HUSKER DU and is
continuing to change in the same direction.

MRR: Why did you go back to SST records?

Grant: SST was the first label that I contacted, I was
experienced working with SST, I didn't want to go
out on a major label for my first record after HUSKER
DU.

MRR: But you could If you wanted to?

Grant: Sure, Bob Mould put his record on Virgin — I
guess that's the way he wanted to do it, personally
nobody in their right mind should put their first
record out on a major label/you know what I
mean? ‘

Grant: I'm a musician.

MRR: This Is your first time In Europe?

Grant: Since HUSKER DU yes; I've only done Switzer¬
land and Italy so far. I always loved to play in Italy,
HUSKER DU only made it here twice. The shows we
did have were marvelous; as what really matters is
people coming up and having something positive
to say to me. I gotta get it from someone! In Europe,
we still have 30 shows to go, this is the most extensive
tour I have had in Europe, including HUSKER DU.
Touring America is something I've done so many
times. I'd rather... if you can put a little adventure in
to your livelyhood, like seeing something I 've never
seen before like this, none of the people with me
has been in Europe before, and it makes more fun
to me. Let's put it this way, if I was pulled in Salt Lake
City, Utah, today I wouldn't be having much of a
good time, also it's a dry town (laughs).

_was the first record I made by

myself, producing, it was also pretty fun going back
to the atmosphere of SST, frustrating but also...
working with a major label, sometimes things get a
little out of hand. I'm not putting down Warner bros.
or any other major label, it's just that (pause)... I
went from having nine years of an established or¬
ganization to no years of organization going to the
complete solo thing, which I did for awhile. So
how's Tim Yohannan?

MRR: Let’s go back to 1985, and MRR printed a letter
by Bob Mould explaining HUSKER DU's step to a
Major label, that was disagreed by many In the
punk rock world, could you understand them now?
Grant: That was a letter by Bob Mould.

MRR: And you're not Bob Mould.

Grant: Let's say here's a credit to Maximum
Rock’n’RolL.ok, some magazines choose to.,.ok, I
forget who it was from ROLLING STONE magazine
who said an underground magazine stays under¬
ground for five years. MRR has been tied to its
politics and aestethics much longer than five years
and I command Tim and the people a lot of re¬
spect. I miss Tim. I haven't seen him In a long time;

I've seen Jello about a year and half ago, butonce
HUSKER DU stopped these people... I haven't been
in SF since being on tour with HUSKER DU, also
there's a little bit of that network that slipped
through the cracks a little. I can completely see the
point of people that said "look what happened to
HUSKER DU'.

MRR: Because of you or because of the major
label?

Grant: Well, we're talking aboutchangs in sound as
well as changing the label that put us out. You take
Flip Your Wia . It's pretty damn commercial. Not so
much to speak in defense of the move to major
label, I'm writing pop songs now. Not I feel to set an
example but I realize that an example is being set
by what I do, anybody that makes music. There are
people I admire, or at least I express the positive feel
ings for, love that I have for or whatever, be-
causethere is someone out there. There are people
that don't see things my way, but see things in a
way similar to the way I see things and it makes me
very happy when someone comes up to me and
says "that one song that you wrote helped me
through some hardtimes', or "My girlfriend and I,

THE

GLEE

CLUB

The Glee Club is a band from Albany,
NY. Their sound is in my mind melodic punk,
with some reggae and ska in it also. They will
be touring North America this summer with
Big Mistake. Giee Club consists of Al, guitar
and vocals ; Pat, bass; and Brian, drums.
MRR: What were your goals when the band
started and have you reached any of them?
GC: In the beginning, the goai of Giee Club
was to simply have fun. We were all friends
and we decided to get together and play
some music. As we got older and became
more aware of the world around us, we
realized that there was a lot of fucked-up
things going on. That's when the band
started to change for us. We realized that it
would be a great vehicle for reaching
people and expressing ourseives. We feel
that we have a lot of important things to say.
If just one person listens to our music, and gets
somethihg out of it, we feel that it was all
worthwhile.

MRR: One of your songs talks about drugs,
“Ignorance.” What do you feel about the
drug problem in the United States, and how
do you think we could change things?

GC: While Glee Club is not a straight-edged
band, the drug problem in the U.S. is some¬
thing we have tried to touch on in our lyrics.

I think it's to the point now where nothing can
really be done to stop it. Our government is
supposedly waging a battle against drugs,
but we all know what a joke that is. The only
difference we see is that more “suspicious"
looking black kids are getting harassed for no
reason. If you fit the stereotype then you're
going to get flack from the police. Maybe if
we legalized drugs, some of the killings would
stop. They are so easy to get now anyway. I
think that it has to start with the education of
the young kids. The are the ones who can still
be helped. There really is no war on drugs; it's
a sham.

MRR: What Inspired you to write the songs
“Not to Late” and “Elephanthead”?

GC: The song ot “Too Late" is obviously about
child abuse. We've all seen that shit first
hand, and it really is a tragedy. Not just the
physical side of it, but the mental as well. It
can really fuck up a young kid for life. We
wrote it because most of the people who
listen to our music will soon be getting into
relationships and having children eventually.
Hopefully, they'll think twice before they act.
Talking is a much better form of communi¬
cation than a backhand to the face. “El¬
ephant Head" is a song about failure. We
have all, at times, felt like we've screwed up
really bad. It's just an introspective thing
where we are questioning what we've done
in the past. We also want other people to
realize that they're not the only ones who
feel that way.

MRR: The song “Looking” seemed deep.
What is your interpretation of this song?

GC: “Looking" is again about ourselves.
Where as “Elephant is king of depressing.

“Looking" is a song about hope. It's saying
that even though things may seem bleak
right now, we're going to keep searching
and striving until we're content. We'll never
give up on ourselves.

MRR: Would you say your music is Oi influ¬
enced? GC: We will listen to some Oi but not
much. It doesn't really influence us though. I
don't think you'll find it in our sound.

MRR: If you could change anything in the
scene, what would it be and how would you
do it?

GC: I think we could write a novel on what
needs to be changed in our scene. The
racism and violence are definitely two im¬
portant things that come to mind. If you see
a fight, break it up. If you see racist bullshit, let
them know that our scene will not tolerate it.
The racists are definitely the minority. If we all
stand up and confront them, they will go
away. Luckily, we've never had a problem
with that at our shows. We would confront it
if it ever happened. Also, the major label
(corporate hardcore) stuff has to go. It's got
nothing to do with what we're about.

MRR: What are some of your favorite bands
and Influences?

GC: Our favorite band is the Clash. They
were years ahead of their time, lyrically and
musically. The greatest band of all time. We
also dig Firehose, Fidelity Jones, All Fall Down,
Parliament, Verbal Assault — the list goes on
and on. Anything that's heartfelt and has
some soul. We just love music. It's our life.
MRR: A couple of your songs seem ska or
reggae Influenced. Do you like ska and
reggae?

GC: We love ska and reggae and it is a big
influence on us. We have a couple of new
songs which are heavily reggae influenced.
Not straight reggae, but you'll find it in there
somewhere. It s just great music. You can
groove to it.

MRR: Do you have any white power types in

your area, and if you do, how do you deal
with them?

GC: Albany has no white power bullshit, I
thank god. We've never had to deal with it
because it's never been up here. I don'tthink
our scene would put up with it though. Luck¬
ily, it's not a problem.

MRR:Any closing comment?

GC: Just give us a chance and listen to what
we have to say. Catch us on tour this summer.
Please tell us what you think. We really want
to hear from people. Don't fuck up this
scene; it's all we got.

Glee Club still has a few ‘looking " CDs
left. Write to Hellacool Records/ PO Box 9301/
Schenectady, NY 12309. “Faraway Lands"
should be out soon. It’s $3 ppd. You can write
to Glee Club at 26 Hayes Rd./E. Greenbush,
NY 12061. One of their former members,
Keith, is in All Fall Ddwn.

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INTERVIEWS

Subvert are an amazing band from Washington.
Despite current trends, they've got nothing to do
with SubPop and play raging hardcore. This inter¬
view was done with Eric - vocals, Gerry - bass,
Shawn - guitar, and Purkey - drums. Outside of
Gilman. By Lance.

MRR: Since the first time I saw you folks with Final
Conflict here at Gilman, you’ve had quite a few
line-up changes. Is this a pretty stable line-up?
What’s been happening?

Eric: Now it's a definite, stable line-up.

MRR: What happened to your other guitar player?
You used to have two didn’t you?

Eric: Mark, our original bass player, quit because of
school and things like that. So John Grant, our
rhythm guitar player, switched to bass. Then he had
to leave because of personal problems.

MRR: Where are you from? (to Gerry)

Eric: Gerald Erwin used to play bass for the Rejectors
up in Seattle back In '621 think.

Gerry: Yeah, '51 or something like that, (laughter)
MRR: How did you know them?

Eric: We bailed him out of jail and he's here)

Gerry: Yeah, that's the first time I met them.
Shawn: Plus he produced our album before he was
in the band. So it worked out really good. He was
already aware of the music and what was going
on.

Eric: So we taught him how to play bass pretty well,
(laughter)

MRR: Do you think that you’re going to tour now that
you have this line-up?

Eric: Yeah, we'd like to do something more exten¬
sive than this (a week of shows). But it's just a real
lack of money and organization of setting this up.
We've never set anything like this up before. We're
really trying to keep it together with ourselves.
MRR: It seems like now you’re at a stage where It
could even be lucrative to tour. The Hippycore V
did real well and now with the album...

Shawn: That's why we're going out on this trip. We
hope to break a little ground then hopefully be
able to come back again.

Eric: We hadn't toured any further down than San
Francisco last year. But this is going to be like check¬
ing out the scene.

Gerry: Next time we'll probably still play the same
places.

Eric: Just trying to get our name out. I doubt if too
many people outside of here have heard of us at
all. Trying to check out the scene and make con¬
nections.

MRR: When people do talk about Subvert over here,
they sort of label you a U.S. “peace punk” band. Is
that a label you’re happy with? When people say,
"Subvert, that peace punk band," what’s the first
thing you think?

Gerry: I'm not too fond of the peace punk label
myself.

Eric: It's like, Jesus, people should have something
better to do with their life than to tag bands. We
were doing this before I ever heard what peace
punk was. I just started hearing stuff last time we
played in Portland about this crustcore stuff. We're
just a punk rock band.

MRR: But you do have politically oriented lyrics and
the musical style Is similar.

Eric: Well, the lyrics are where it's at.

Shawn: They're not the only important thing. In the
sense of peace punk... Maybe at one time we
were, but now we're not like passive. We say what
we have to say, but if it comes down to confronta¬
tion, we're going to go.

Eric: We're just saying what it always seemed like

punk rock was about. That's just where it's at.
We've just got some Ideas that make sense to us.
We're not preachers. We just want to share an Idea.
Shawn: When you get the whole peace punk tag
It's like, 'Oh I can guess what they'll sound like.
They'll probably be bitching between every song
for 15 minutes.'

Eric: A lot of these bands that are tagged peace
punk bands... I don't wanna get down on any of
them as bands. But the whole label - it just brings up
these connotations of empty dogma. These
politcal statements. What do they have to do with
anything if it isn't with you when you're walking
down the street.

MRR: It’s really too bad because It’s also taken a lot
of Impact out of a lot of really great bands.

Shawn: When they hear peace punk, they don't
even consider what the music may sound like.
Gerry: Musically, we listen to everything from Neil
Diamond to...

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MRR: Did someone say Nell Diamond?

Eric: Yeah, we listen to a lot of Neil Diamond and
Barry Manilow.

MRR: I could believe It!

Eric: We listen to way too much music.

MRR: What do you folks think of the Pogues?
(laughter)

Eric: I love the Pogues. I fuckin' love the Pogues.
They're a big Inspiration on me.

Shawn: That's his thing.

MRR: One thing we were talking about earlier as
well was the Issue of dealing with skinheads and
violence. First of all, what Is the situation with things
up where you are In Washington?

Eric: It was starting to get fairly bad with nazi skins.
Shawn: Yeah, American Front, War Skins...

Gerry: Those skins from over In Idaho.

Eric: Yeah, there were a bunch of skins that came
over to Seattle to get us. They never showed up.
(laughs)

Gerry: What happens every time is there will be a
couple of bad ass skins will come from somewhere.
They'll hang out with a few of the young kids. They

get them In trouble then they take off. Then little kids
get beat up.

MRR: What are some of the worst experiences
you’ve had with them?

Eric: It just escalated. This friend of ours from
Tacoma, he's this little kid. He had a full arm caston.
Some big skinhead from out of town took It upon
himself to beat the fuck out of him and smash up his
cast. That went from one thing to another. One
thing that's good about that area is people won't
just stand back. They'll call people on their shit. If it
comes to violence which isn't a cool thing... I mean
I'm not a pacifist but it's a tight thing.

Gerry: People are really good friends Is what It
comes down to.

Eric: I'm not a pacifist but I believe in a lot of pacifist
Ideas. Violent Isn't a good thing but there's a logi¬
cal confusion.

Shawn: It all got out of hand. It got way out of hand.
This guy got pummeled by about six or seven
people and this other guy got a two by four broken
over his a head a few times.

Gerry: I think it was a railroad tie.

Eric: It was an ugly scene. Why does It have to come
to that?

MRR: Well, they bring It upon themselves.

Eric: That's what I mean by a natural conclusion. It's
a fucked cycle.

Shawn: Up to about a year ago I was in thought
completely passive. I wouldn't even consider a
fight. I just got to a point where it has to go down. It
doesn't matter if these guys are bad ass or what-
ever their situation is. When It's head up, people are
people and if you're gonna brawl...

Eric: And there's no chance of... people that are
hardcore white power, you can't convert them.
MRR: It’s not like you can re-educate someone
who’s been told this years and years.

Eric: Exactly. You can show them all the amount of
love and compassion and support and it's not
going to change their mind. It's the younger kids
that think it's cool. That's where it's got to start. You
have to tell them. 'No, it's not cool.' It's un-being a
racist whether you have hair or not. The whole thing
about being skinhead is really irrelevant to the
deeper issue. It's not cool to be a racist. It's fucked
up to be homophobic. It's fucked up to be sexist.
Gerry: It's the same reason that people become
cops. They get fucked with when they're kids and
they try to take it out on somebody else.

Eric: Exactly, and they need a scapegoat. They
can't look at the problems and see it in themselves
which is where it's at. So they say, 'It's the fuckin'
fags! Fuckin' niggers!' Fuck you! It's you man, or
woman. It's the person right there.

MRR: It seems like racism is just one Issue. But there
are other things going on.

Shawn: It's hate.

Eric: That's one thing that In our area at least punks
know racism is bad. They know sexism is bad. Then
this homophobic thing comes in. No one really
knows. But it's the same thing. It comes from the
same mind set. The same attitude. It's like looking
for something outside yourself. Looking for a target
to put it on.

Shawn: A lot of people don't understand. Me and
Eric will go sit in a gay bar and have a beer because
it's cheap pitcher night. They're just like, 'What?!?
You do what?!?' Shit. I go out there and disco,
(laughter) It's beer and cheap pitchers. They hit on
you or whatever and it's cool.

Eric: Yeah, It's that whole macho thing. "Yeah, 1
hate fags.' Why? *Uh well, they hit on me once.'

Fuckin' A. You're not secure enough in yourself?

MRR: It's not like they haven’t done It to women
either.

Eric: Exactly, How many drunk people have gone
up to someone of the opposite sex and been all.
'Hey baby, blah, blah, blah,' It doesn't matter, to
put it bluntly, where you put it or where you take It.
Itdoesn't make a world of difference. It's what you
are as a preference.

MRR: Is there an awareness of that up In your scene?
Eric: I think it's growing a lot.

MRR: Do you folks feel like you had a tot to do with
that?

Shawn: 1 wouldn't say directly. Maybe Indirectly.
Then there's other bands. The whole scene is work¬
ing.

Gerry: It's not just a thing with the band. It's Just
people we hang out with. They can hang out with
us and If they have problems we stick by them.
Eric: It's just sharing ideas. The whole thing with the
band. We just have these ideas. When we walk
down the street these ideas are in our head. We
make sense out of our lives with them. It's how we
make some kind of sense in the world. It's not like
some preachy message. It's not like, 'Oh, you eat
meat. You're not as good a person as I am.' It's just,
here are some ideas. Take them.

Gerry: I think a good way to turn people off is to
preach at them.

MRR: Either way nobody wants to be told what to do.

Shawn: Yeah, you can tell them that this is a fact.
But you can't say, this is a fact that you have to
believe.

Gerry: Yeah, this is what I do. If you don't want to do
it, that's cool.

Eric: This is just what we see as a band. This is what
we see as individuals. This is what I see through my
eyes.

MRR: Who writes all your lyrics?

Eric: I've been writing all the lyrics lately. It's not like
anyone would come out with these huge personal
statements because the other band members
wouldn't be Into it. I'll write lyrics and put it how I
feel. But we talk a lot about what we want to say
and how we want to talk about it.

MRR: Have you ever been In a situation where
they’ve wanted you to change something?

Eric: Yeah. "Man In A Crowd.'

Shawn: But that was just rewording and giving
suggestbns.

Gerry: It's not like we tell him what to do. It's more
like, why not try this?

Eric: Just better ways to say it. Who am I or Shawn or
Gerry to talk for the four of us.

MRR: It seems like you have similar Ideas. 1 remem¬
ber once you were telling a story on what “Psy¬
chopath” was about.

Eric: The songs don't tell the story. It's more of a
response.

Shawn: It's the anger. Our old guitar player wrote
the lyrics to that song.

Eric: It's about this young girl that was at a punk rock
show In Tacoma. The show got out and she was on
her way home.

Shawn: She was trying to hitchike. She got stranded.
Eric: She got picked up by this guy and ended up
being raped and tortured. It was really bad situa¬
tion.

Shawn: He had just been let out after doing some¬
thing like 25 years ~ for the same thing.

Eric: It really hit home with the whole scene. She was
like a girl that hung out. That whole song was just
angry. Fuck this. As it got more refined, it brought
out of the anger... Kind of pointing at some things
about rape. Like how rape affects everybody.
Shawn: The guy was taking her away to kill her. She

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got away at a gas station. That's the only reason he
got nailed. They went on the defense that she was
a prostitute and he paid to have hard sex with her.
She was a 14-year-old little punk girl.

Gerry: And it was the way she was dressed. The
same bullshit.

Shawn: That had happened to other girls In
Tacoma before. They got on the prosecution and
gotten off. That's what they tried to do. It was too
big of a media thing. It was on every day of the
news. He pretty much got life. Sixty years or some¬
thing.

MRR: Probably a lot of It had to do with the fact that
he had just gotten out of jail. It probably would
have been a lot harder if that weren't the case.
Shawn: They would have blown it under. It would
have been a report on the second page of the
local section. That would have been about it.

Eric: What the whole prosecution used as far as
saying she was a prostitute... that goes even
deeper. Basically legally saying rape is sex. It's
fuckin' not. It's fuckin' violent assault. It has nothing
to do with sex. It's power structure and total domi¬
nation. We're just taught all this shit. Society breeds
rapists, then wonders why they fuckin' pop up.
Society breeds serial killers then wonders why.
"Ooh, this Is really twisted.' No man.

MRR: People don’t want to realize that rapists aren't
Insane people. Rapists are just common folk.

Eric: What doesn't get addressed a lot is that the

the U.S. and the USSR. It's all just for the people.
Eric: They're just talking shop. They're talking busi¬
ness.

Gerry: Thatcher was saying the other day that they
weren't going to reduce anything just of the safety
of having them.

MRR: “The safety of having them.” That’s a weird
thing to say.

Eric: Yeah. I would guess the songs you were talking
about were "We All Fall Down' and "Ghosts Of
Hiroshima.' "We All Fall Down' is about accidental
nuclear war. Not just about it, but bringing it down
to a personal level. "Ghosts of Hiroshima' is more,
once again, about the climate that nuclear war
breeds inside us. We have mindset. Not with the
technology. But we're bred with it. We grew up with
it. It's like, God. we're the second generation that's
had to live with it. Like it's totally normal. "Yeah,
there's nuclear weapons and any minute it's all
gone.'

MRR: It’s funny how much of It Is just economics.
Even all the talk about safety Is just a scam. It’s all
money.

Eric: Yeah and when it all trickles down, the two
super powers are both making money off each
other. Selling parts to each other. It's this big inter¬
connected thing. There are no borders when it
comes to money.

Gerry: The companies that are building all the
warheads, they rip 'em both off.

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climate just builds. Women being afraid. There's a
total climate of fear and mistrust. That translates
onto the street with everyday existence.

Shawn: Yeah, if we're walking down a street and a
girl is walking the other way, she'll switch her purse
to the other side and cower by.

Eric: That's the whole climate that It breeds.

MRR: It’s also like a stereotype. They want to think
that the people who are really dangerous look
weird and are somehow different. When It could Just
their next door neighbors or a relative.

Shawn: That goes into the media and the TV.
People are brought up as kids.

Eric: People are just fed all this stuff. At school. On TV.
In religion. That's something that everyone knows.
But it doesn't change It.

MRR: Well, to change the subject - oh, I’m sorry.
Were you done?

Eric: Yeah, I'mdone. You're oppressing me, Lance,
(laughter) You're being uncool and heavy on me.

MRR: A lot of your songs also talk about nuclear
weapons or the threat of nuclear war. With what’s
going on In Eastern Europe, how do you feel It’s
going to change things?

Eric: The nuclear weapons still exist. It's the same
threat. I personally don't think nuclear war is ever
going to happen in a premeditated... It's acci¬
dents. As long as they're around, an accident Is
going to happen.

Shawn: And the stuff in Eastern Europe. They just lost
control of the people. To me all the talks between

MRR: It’s like capitalism Is Internationalism, (laugh¬
ter)

Eric: Even if you're a communist.

Shawn: It's like the Cold War is over.

Eric: And the consumer war has begunl
MRR: What worries me Is that one day there will be
no nuclearweapons and the peace movement will
crumble because they’ve been satisfied. All the
liberals will go back home. Then they’ll find some¬
thing else to make money off of. Capitalism will
continue.

Eric: All that's going on in Eastern Europe, look at
how the American news media is taking it. Capital-
isnrf has won. The American system is so fucking
wonderful. Finally all the other countries have seen
the light. They're busting down the Berlin Wall to run
over and buy VCRs. There's this McDonald's in
Russia that can seat 900. It takes a week s worth of
pay to buy some fuckin' death burger. And
America is going, 'Now they know. They've seen
the light.'

MRR: It’s the same mentality that Hispanic workers
have trying to get across the border hoping to find
something In the United States.

Eric: Like it's the Mecca. Land of Opportunity. The
come across thinking it's a golden oppurtunity. It's
fuckin' America, for God's sake, give it a rest.

MRR: “What Does It Mean” was on the first
Hlppycore 7". What kind of thinking went Into It? Are
any of you vegetarian?

Eric: Shawn's a vegetarian. I'm a vegan. Gerry and

Purkey both eat meat. That song wasn't so much Eric: Being aware and being able to have it inside their living room.

about eating meat, although there are arguments you head. Outside of that it's like nothing. You can Purkey: Ask us what our influences are.

that come into it. Mostly that song was about scream ’bring down the government* all you want MRR: What are your Influences? John Bonham?

animal experimentation. Shawn and I have talked and nothing's going to happen. That’s what all drummers say. (laughter)

about it. We would get into several arguments MRR: Sometimes It’s worth It to participate In boy- Purkey: I'd say my influences are Pink Floyd and

talking food politics even if we were all vegetarians. colts. Nirvana...

MRR: In a lot of ways It’s a separate Issue. Eric: Oh, definitely. We're not talking down about MRR: Whatdoyouthlnkof theSubPopstuff upthere?

Eric: In some ways it is and in some ways it's not. boycotts. Not at all. Gerry: I hate SubPop.

Shawn: It's just that we know the score. There are Gerry: Like Coors, the G. Heilman Corporation. They Purkey: They basically monopolize the scene. If

also a million people who know the score that are own most of the cheap beer In Washington. But if they didn't do that, they would be a lot cooler,

all talking about it. There are other things that we you have a couple bucks and you want a beer... Eric: They've basically polarized the whole scene,

think are important, and that is too. But speaking as Eric: It just depends on what the situation is and Either you're a Seattle band with the Seattle sound

a whole band, we can't say, 'You murderer, you where you're at to do it. You have to do what you or you're a Seattle band that doesn't play out a

ate a hamburger.' can. It's how you perceive it and how far you want whole lot.

Gerry: It's a personal choice too. For myself, if I to take it. As long as you still have a life that's worth Purkey: But Nirvana Is still the best band in the world,

could afford not too eat any of that, dairy products living to you. Talking about beer like it's a life is really Gerry: SubPop basically comes off as like, if you're

and stuff, I wouldn't do it. belittling it. But you do what you feels right. not on SubPop...

Eric: Well, I can't afford it. We could get Into a big MRR: If there’s one song that you feel sums up what Eric: You're worthless.

brawl right now. But that song is mostly about Subverts about, what would you say It Is? Purkey: Basically a lot of bands I know that talk

animal experimentation and we might be toning (Purkey arrives in the van.) about SubPop say it's really fucked. Johnathan

down the animal rights thing just because it would Purkey: Hi, I'm the fourth member of Subvert and I and Bruce don't know how to handle the money

be so easy to peg us. "Two of the guys in the band just arrived. and a lot of shit isn't working out. They're getting

eat meat. This song has no validity.' Eric: Where did you go? moremoneythrownatthembecauseCBSwantsto

Shawn: We're just opening up for the anarchists to Shawn: Hey, he's drunk! buy them out.

take us down. Purkey: 1 just went to get some food and I met DEZ Gerry: Johnathan used to be a good friend of mine,

Gerry: We've all had our little debates. CADENAI! No, I'm drunk at all. I actually drank tea. and he's basically told me himself he is a “stereo-

Eric: Big debates, (laughs) I almost shit in my pants. I'm like, no wayl I was typical jew.' He told me that himself.

MRR: But you can all agree that vivisection Is prob- talking to him earlier and I didn't know who I was Eric: Make sure when you print it, that he said that

ably bad. (laughter) talking to. and we didn't say that about him. All we need is

Eric: Yeah, that's definitely something we can all (Talk goes into famous people they've met another Professor Gerry, (laughs)

agreeon. We bring itdown tosomethingmorethan throughout their childhood.) Shawn: 1 wouldn't give SubPop that much credit,

cute little bunnies with mascara being rammed MRR: Back to the question, what song do you think They're just there.

down its eye. It's just life. Lives. sums up Subvert? Gerry: Sure they're doing a lot of stuff. But in my

MRR: It’s good that you do that. It’s cool that you Eric: I would say "Free Your Mind.' it's just about eyes, they're not that special. The bands them-

actually discuss things and If you don’t all agree taking what we're saying personally. As far as what selves are great.

about a topic, you write about something else. It’s we're saying, taking itlikeyou, yourself, asa person, Eric:lsawMudhoneyonceandl thought they were

sad when just one person Is the spokesperson and as a human being, changing things in your head. great. But then I realized that I liked them because

the rest of the band doesn’t care. People always say, 'Smash the system! Smash the they sounded just like Iggy and the Stooges and I

Shawn: For one, we've all been friends for a long system!' Why do you want to smash the system love them. That's pretty bad when it's the only

time. unless you have something on the other side that reason you like a band.

Gerry: There are four personalities in the band. you're human for? There's got to be a target and MRR: Well, I'm running out of tape, so we should end

That's justthe way it is. However many people you not just the wall. soon.

have in your band, it's not going to change the Purkey: You've got to change yourself before you Eric: Man, just flip It over and ask us more questions,

personality of the people in the band. A band can can change your environment. MRR: No way, I’ve gotta Interview Apocalypse on

have a message, but each message is each song. Eric: I think “Free Your Mind'is it. Like thechorusgoes the otherslde.

Shawn: You'll see a million anarchist bands that all "Revolution starts with love in our heart and the Eric: Well, let's get the address. That whole mail

think the same and then break up because one vision to see we can all be free.' Not someone thing... we got a lot worse rap about being lazy in

person has a different thought. If you're too up- jamming political slogans in your face and telling replying then we should have. Anyone who sent us

tight... We're not dumb and just beginning. We've you, 'This is the way. This is the way.' money, it went to the wrong address. The address

been at It for a while and we know what we think. MRR: Whatever happened to those old t-shlrts that that we were using on the back of our EP wasn't

We've just come to terms. I'll see it all the time. One I had? The ones that say... going for about a year. We're kinda slow with mail

person in the band will just quit. Eric: Smash the state and have a nice day! (laughs) when we get it. But when we don't get nine tenths

MRR: They’re too rigid. Shawn: Cheers! of it, it really makes us look bad. There was a lot of

Eric: That's why I think a lot of the anarchist, left-wing MRR: That should have been your record title! mail to Seattle zines calling us assholes and stuff. But

and liberal bullshit way has a way of justeating itself. Eric: I like that a lot. Either that or "Fuck shit up (and now we have a permanent address. So write and

The statement I just made was a lot like that too. pretend you're really really mad when you do it).' send stamps. But don't just write saying 'send me

Shawn: There's no such thing as the perfect anar- (laughter) info on Subvert t-shirts and stickers.' At least write a

chist. MRR: How did you hook up with Raging Records? letter.

Eric: Well, you can try to take out all the animal Eric: Through Jack and Joel. Baz heard our 7* and MRR: Then It will take forever to write back!

products from everything you do. But you can drink wanted to do the album. (laughter)

a beer. Those companies invest in all these different MRR: Did you meet Baz when he was out here? Purkey: Send us your opinions on our songs,

things. What holds the label onto the bottle? Some Eric: No, I've never met him. Eric: Send us your opinions on anything. Our songs

kind of glue. Who knows where that comes from. Shawn: I didn't even know he came out here. aren't that important to warrant a whole letter.

Eric: There's the cynic view that's always looking for Eric: Yeah, he was with Jack and Joel for a while. MRR: Sure they are.

something that's wrong. But you never look for MRR: Yeah, they stayed at my apartment. There Eric: Okay.yousald it. LANCE SAID OUR SONGS ARE

something that's actually happening, As long as were like seven of us In this little studio about the size IMPORTANT! (laughter)

you can boycott things and not eating what you of this van. All sleeping cramped with cases of Purkey: Jason Traeger, hi! I haven't seen you in six

feel deep down inside is wrong, if at least you're generic beer. years, but you sold me my first drum set.

doing it for yourself and you're making steps to Eric: We're going down to play In Jack and Joel's Eric: Hi Donna, you never sold me a drum set.

know it's like, 'Yeah I'm doing this.' living room. (laughs)

Gerry: I think even more important than that is just MRR: Man, that’s the place to play. I heard Purkey: Hey Dad!

being aware Chumbawamba are coming out and are playing In

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t

This interview was done before the
band split up. Every band Billy Rubin’s been in
has broken up before we got their Interview
to print, so this time it goes In regardless-a bit
of history, Interview by Lance and Walter
MRR: So, first of all, who’s who?

Rick: I'm Rick and I play guitar.

Billy: I'm Billy and I sing.

John: I'm John. Bass.'

Vadim: I'm Vadim and I try to play the drums.
Billy: And he does a mighty tine job of it too.
MRR: Maybe we should start by taking this all
the way back. Do you want to talk about
what happened with Half Off?

Billy: Half Off was around for quite a few
years. Album. 7". It broke up when we failed
to go on tour. Shortly after that John and Rick.
who had been long time friends, started
jamming. They needed a drummer so they
picked up Vadim. Finally, I got in there. So it
wasn't like we were trying to do some "three
membersof Half Off" thing. It just kind of hap¬
pened that way. The other two members of
Half Off other than John weren't even origi¬
nal members. So it's not even like a Half Off
reincarnation. It's a completely different
thing.

MRR: At this point, asfar as musically or what¬
ever, do you feel that you’re taking off from
where Half Off ended? Is it completely unre¬
lated? Do you feel like it’s a progression from

Billy: To an extent we were a take off. I mean,
we were in that band together. I don't really
feel that Half Off influences this band any
more than the same influences that I had
before that band. I still have those influences.
But I don't see the two to be really related.
John: It's a totally different state of mind.
When I was in Half Off, I would write things
and I would say/that doesn't really sound
like Half Off. “ Because I was a new comer to
the band and I didn't want to throw them
into a different league. So it's sort of like a
whole new frame of mind.

Vadim: I learned to play drums in Half Off.
When we decided to start a band I was like,
"Okay. I'm gonna learn toplay drums and it's
going to be punk rock." So I guess it influ¬
ences me. But as far as this stuff... it's a totally
new band. It's not Half Off part 2 or anything.
Rick: I wasn't part of Half Off. (laughter)
MRR: Okay, that’s the end of the Half Off
questions.

All: Thank you.

Billy: It is annoying that we read a lot of
reviews that say Haywire sounds just like Half
Off. The only thing that I could possibly think
that's in their minais that my voice sounds the
same. I can't hold that against a reviewer. It's
true, it's the same voice. I don't have Paula
Abdul's producers yet. So it's pretty much
identical. Otherwise I don't think it sounds like
Half Off at all.

MRR: Actually, I would say that the music is
quite different. In a lot of reviews I’ve read,
people compare you more to Motorhead...

John: You've been reading the wrong re¬
views. Everyone says we sound like Black
Flag, (laughs) It's just something we don't
understand.

Billy: We get a lot of the comparisonsto Black
Flag. Sometimes they pick out things where it

may be true. But usually it's just for lack of
better comparisons.

John: Or creativity on their own part.

MRR: It’s strange because Half Off used to
always get lumped as a straight edge band.
Now it seems like you get lumped as a Blast-
type band. Why do you think that happens?
Do you think it is an influence in what you do?
Billy: Like I said before. I can't leave any
influences that I've had. Any person who has
a tattoo, that ever had a shaved head, that
ever sang for a hardcore band, can't say he
isn't influenced by Henry Rollins. That's a lie. In
fact many people who don't have those
qualities and sing for a band are still influ¬
enced by Henry Rollins. It's inevitable. We've
had some influences. But Rick writes 90% of
the music and about 50% of the lyrics. Are
you influenced by those bands Rick?

Rick: No.

MRR: Would you say that there are any bands
that you do fit in with? Like bands in your
area?

Billy. We don't know them. We have bands
that we're friends with like Carry Nation and
Headfirst. They are our good friends. But as
far as what they're trying to do and what
we're trying to do and what we' re all playing
musically, no. But in the true sense of alterna¬
tiveness, I don't feel that it really matters.
They're our friends. I know that's not what

you were looking for.

MRR: Are there any bands that you would
compare yourselves to now? Is there any¬
thing you’re trying to get at?

Billy: I don't know. Musically I would compare
us to an immature Black Sabbath. If some¬
one thought that ‘way about us, I'd be pretty
satisfied. That is a compliment.

MRR: So you’re not going to go on any spo¬
ken word tours yet? (laughter)

Billy: I don' t think anyone would want to listen
to me. (laughs)

MRR: Now as far as the music, you (to Rick)
write 90°/o of the music. How does that hap¬
pen? Does one person come up with a song
or is a combination of a lot of people?

Rick: Oddly enough, a lot of if's just a backlog
of stuff I had. A lot of it'sjustreally old material
that I introduced to the band. That's how it
works unless John has an idea that's new. But
I've just kinda reworked my older things to fit
this iqand.

John: Haywire is the opportunity for Rick to
bring out a lot of his stuff that a lot of his other
bands wouldn’t really let him bring out.

Billy: And a lot of the stuff they wouldn't let
him bring out, maybe wasn't in the form that
he wanted it to be. Now he can play it. I think
basically the goal of Haywire when we
started out was just be really heavy. Let's try
and be like a massive band.

John: Just outlet. Don't be like, "We wanna tit
into this" or "we wanna sound like this." Just
outlet. It's gotta come out. This is the way it's
gonna come out.

Billy: Mind you. my lyrics don't mean like... I
don't sing about nonsense. But at the same
time, I can tell you right now I'm way more
into just being in the band and getting to
scream a whole than what I'm actually say¬
ing. I try to say something that’s important.
But the rush is way better. Tdon't want to say

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“save the world" or “feed the homeless." I
don't care about any of that stuff.

MRR: Maybe it seems kinda weird to ask this
now. But what are your lyrics getting at?

Billy: I sing about all kinds of different things.
I'm really really bored with what everyone's
singing about. To me it's very obvious. Ian
writes a song about straight edge. Everyone
else writes a song about straight edge. Ian
writes a song about rape. Everyone writes a
song about rape. Dan O'Mahoney writes a
song about child abuse. Everyone else writes
a song about child abuse.

MRR: And not as good.

Billy: I suppose I could do exactly what those
guys are doing. Or I could start writing songs
about stupid things like fucking and we
could send all our demos to SubPop. But I'm
not interested in that. A lot of the topics that
are in my mind are like the pending race war
that's going on my mind. I like to write about
a lot of things that insult people and fuck
people up. I think it's true for me and Rick
both that we're influenced by the psychotic
side of the world. Not for shock value, but just
for the same reason that you would buy a
Charles Manson book . You're just curious.
MRR: Then would you say that beyond lust the

riffs and the lyrics, creatively speaking does
everyone in the band have equal input? It
seems like you're more high just on the en¬
ergy of the band than anything else. Is that
fair to say?

Rick: Yeah, I think so. When I write, they're
more or less narratives. If people take it as my
personal point of view, then they have prob¬
lems. Especially on the material on the new
record.

Billy: There's a new song on the record
called. You tell them what it's about.

Rick: It's basically about a child molester. But
the way it's done, Billy is sort of taking the role
of the child molester. I think a lot of people will
take the wrong idea that Billy Rubin really
goes out and...

Billy: The way I've had accusations fly against
me in the past. I'm sure someone will say,
That's fucked, you wrote a song about rap¬
ing poor little kids." Lighten up.

John: People who don't understand satire
are the people who took “Nazi Punks Fuck
Off" as a serious role model.

MRR: People tend to take lyrics much too
literally now days.

John: Well, people are stupid, (laughter)

Billy: We wrote a song called “ Looking Down"
on Private Hell. I wrote a song about homo¬
phobia and everyone accused me of fuck¬
ing my girlfriends up the ass and writing a
song about it. Yeah, that's all I have to do
with my time is have anal sex with my girl¬
friend, who would even kill me if I attempted
it, so you know it's like...

MRR: You can’t please everybody.

Billy: Well, you can't please anyone. A lot of
the time I feel like we've been pretty lucky to
have gotten away with as much as we have.
MRR: Actually I’d like to talk a bit about what
it’s like living where you live in Orange
County or wherever you live in Southern
California. Obviously a lot of people talk
about L.A. or Orange County being this teri-
bly, depressing smog town...

Rick: Well, they're not too far off.

John: You folks have a lot more nuts up here
though.

Rick: At least they're tolerable though.

Billy: Yeah, we were walking around Berkeley
today, yeah, everyone's parents smoked
pot. That's fine. Whatever.

MRR: I’m just curious of what you think of just

living there. There’s always been a problem
with just shows there and really big cliques.

John: Yeah, there's a problem there. But
something that kinda pissed me off was.. we
didn't know about the flyer (for the Gilman
show) and we got up here in Berkeley and all
these people were like, "Wow, you're from
Orange County."

Billy: They were saying, “Oh you guys are
playing? You're on the Orange County
show." And we were thinking, why are they
saying this? So we get here and we read the
flyer. The flyer is totally fucked up! The flyer
says “Haywire consists of members of Under¬
dog, No For An Answer, McRad." and it says
all over that these bands are from Orange
County. It's true that when I first moved out
here, the first place I lived was Orange
County. But now I live in Long Beach.

MRR: Who cares anyway?

Billy: Right, we're from planet Earth. That's
unfortunate as it is. It is very clique-ish. But half
the time, I feel that it's just a bunch of hype.
Vadim: I heard someone say, "Oh you folks
are playing the straight edge. Orange
County show." It just seems that everyone
thinks that everything from Orange County Is
straight edge. But Pi's from Orange County

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MRR: I guess they’re anything but straight
edge. Anyway, you folks have been around
for a long time. You’ve seen things go up and
down. The scene, if you can call it that, is in a
lull. What do you do to keep yourself inspired
and keep making music? i

Billy: Well, let's put it this way. This summer,
we're going to Europe because we don't
really care about this country we live in.

John: Is that circle A enough for the people
in Berkeley or what? (laughter)

Billy: I've traveled across the country and I've
been out to New York and I've seen what this
country has to offer and I think that we're
going to get the same kind of response
everywhere that we get right here in L. A. That
we're going to have to beat ourselves into
the ground and really, really, really play hard
for people to get even half of an idea as to
what we're about. The first fewtimes Haywire
played we got responses like, "It's really dif¬
ferent, man. I guess we like it."

John: “We can't handle that".

Billy: Now people starting to get into it. But it's
weird. I almost feel like they're imagining that
it's Half Off continued.

Vadim: Another reason they're getting into it
is because someone that is “cool" in the
scene says they like us. Big Frank likes us. Dan
O'Mahony likes us. “Well, if they liked 'em,
they must be cool. I guess I can like them."
Billy: It's okay to like a band that's got a touch
of metal now because they do it. I'm really
glad that Frank and Dan like us and I know
that it's sincere. But the first ten shows or so,
there wasn't a single person out there that
knew the words to our songs. But we had sold
plenty of records in the area. Now we play
and I can't even sing myself. We're bom¬
barded. It's like one of those straight edge
pictures where everyone's jumping on the
stage. That's not what I want.

MRR:Yeah, when I saw you guys with the Cro-
Mags, everyone just stood there like “huh?”

It was mostly metal kids. But still.

John: We weren't cool.

Vadim: Still, we weren't cool because until
someone says that they're appropriate to
like, then they can like us. Until then we're just
a bunch of jerks.

MRR: It also seems that when you started, you
didn’t look like a straight edge band. You’re

not metal enough for the metal crowd.

Billy: That's one of the things we kind of took
advantage of after Half Off broke up. Well,
three of us. This sort of leaves Rick out. which
sucks. But I think we all took advantage of
starting again. We were able to say, now we
don't have to be a part of any of that bullshit.
We want to make it as clear as possible that
no, we're not a straight edge band. Even if
you ever heard one of our records, you
would know that we weren't a straight edge
band. But all these kids kept saying, “Oh Half
Off, that straight edge band." That's fucked.
MRR: Still, a lot of people are buying your
records even if it’s from these cliques. But you
must think you’re affecting some people with
it.

Billy: Oh, I'm sure we are. I know our message
is getting through to a lot of people. Even
nowadays people are coming to me and
getting inspired by Half Off's lyrics because,
let's face it, straight edge is going downhill.
It's not the cool thing anymore. I'm not sure
if it's because SubPop is going uphill, (laugh¬
ter) But I think a lot of it is Ray being exposed
for what a lot of people knew he was.
Straight edge isn't that cool. So nowadays I
get a lot of people telling me, “Wow, I was
reading your Half Off lyrics and I never new
how cool they were."

John: Two years too late.

Billy: Yeah, in a bout another two years they'll
be saying, “Yeah, I wasjust reading the lyrics
to Looking Down." Who knows? I don't want
to sound too jaded or too condescending.
That's why I don't want to put too much
emphasis on the lyrics. I want to play mean
and heavy music. If nothing else, people can
just not listen to what I'm saying and just
band their head, (laughter)

MRR: You were talking about your “mes¬
sage.” Not just the lyrics, but what do you
think is the message you’re trying to get
across?

John: What I see it as is... Just open up and do
the creativity thing. It's hard when you're 16
years old and your only influences are D.R.I.
or Bad Religion or whatever. Give it a
chance. Open up and just do it. Push yourself
hard. So many bands, so many people, and
so many fanzines just cop out. Like they hear

a new band. "Oh. I'll compare them to...
Youth Of Today."

Billy: Three sentence record reviews.

John: Stuff like that. I wantto inspire people to
push themselves for a better sound, a better
idea, a new idea. Keep it moving. Hopefully
people will pick up on that even if they're
Imitating us. Just pick up on something new
and do it. Don't stagnate.

Billy: I'd like to get a variety. So that there's
different types of bands playing the same
kind of show. It seems like back in the early
days of punk rock, that was the case. You
would have the Minutemen playing with
Black Flag playing with someone like Nega¬
tive Trend. Nowadays you've gotthe Youthf-
est or the SubPop decadence. I like aspects
of both of those scenes but...

MRR: Well, by your standards, what would
you say Is the best show Haywire's played?
Rick: For me it was Arizona.

Billy: We played in Arizona with Last Option.
For me I had fun playing with Tad and Nir¬
vana at a 21 and over place. I was in an arm
brace, t had my arm imobllized and we still
had a good time.

MRR: Why did this stand out for you? Did
people like you there?

Billy: Yeah, some people told us we blew Tad
away. That amazed me.

MRR: Just because you all way less than Tad
together, (laughter)

Billy: That was fun. We played in Santa Bar¬
bara recently with Blast! and we got up on
stage and thought, oh fuck. The people that
are politically correct usually hate us. Every¬
one there looked like they were either die¬
hard feminist lesbian or straight edge Joe. I
was like, oh fuck, people aren't gonna like us.
We started playing and people went
berzerk. It was like, "I can't believe it!" That
was really fun. Then we played at Spanky's
with Carry Nation and it was this straight
edge test. But it was great!

MRR: Why do these shows stand out for you?
Billy: It's the way people respond.

John: It surprises us. We're used to people
saying, "Are they done yet? What are they
doing? Fuck, they don't mosh." It surprises us
when someone pushes across the stage,
grabs the mike and says, "I want to sing." It's
happened at the last few shows. It's the
same guy too. (laughter)

MRR: Yeah, you should tell Billy’s dad to stay
home, (laughter)

Billy: My parents came to see us playwithTad
and Nirvgna. They stayed for about half the
set. They said it was fine until I started singing,
(laughter) “I could handle the music. But
when you started sing it was just awful." My
brother used to be into hardcore then he got
really into the Grateful Dead. I was on vaca¬
tion with my family and I brought a tape of
the new record and he said,' I don't want to
hear it. I know exactly what it's going to
sound like." But he listened to it and said,
"Wow, you folks have really changed a lot."

I thought that was great. He compared us to
the harder stuff on the new Neil Young al¬
bum.

John: Well, he's got a broad spectrum of
comparisons, (laughter)

MRR: What are you folks doing as far as the
tour?

John: Twenty six days. May 30th to June 24th.
Landing in Frankfurt Germany. We're cruising
all over.

Billy: Yeah, we're playing in about eight dif¬
ferent countries. We're doing 22 shows in 23
days. I don't know, we've got something like
three days off. We're touring with a band

called NoNoYesNo. Thomasso from Trust.
Unbelievable record. I would almost con¬
sider them to be doing the exact same thing
that we're trying to do over In Europe. I was
talking to Thomasso a few days ago and he
was saying that they were running into the
same kind of shit. Just narrow-minded
people.

MRR: What’s going on as far as new releases?

Billy: We're going to have an album. We're
desperately trying to get on a larger label.
Seriously, with what we want to do. we aren't
able to keep putting out our own records
and get shit done. We don't even have
money to advertize except Maximum. Any¬
way. the new record is going to be called
Abominations. Pushead did the artwork for
the cover. It sounds pretty good. The produc¬
tion could have been a little better. But we're
happy with it. It should be coming out in July/
August. It will be out In Europe on We Bite.
When we get back from Europe we'll proba¬
bly kick back for a little while, then starting
working on new material right away.

John: A rock opera.

Billy: Yeah, we're gonna do a rock opera
called, "Timmy." (laughter) That's what Cru¬
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times can take on an experimental or psych edge.
But pretty much Just straight ahead rock. When we
practice though, we fuck around wtth a lot of different
Ideas.

MRR: I hear the Assassins will be on a couple of
French compilations this year. Is Europe a good
market for your music?

Keith: Europe Is a great place for all American music 1
1 urge all U.SA bands to send your demos overseas
too. I’ve had success wtth overseas record
companies wtth both Free Love Society and The
Dispossessed. It just takes a little more time to get
your product out.

MRR: What current bands really Impress you?

Keith: Marshmallow Overcoat, the Cynics. Cocteau
Twins. Tad. Gun Club. Also the Stranglers and old
GBH.

Adam: The Bags (out of Boston). Tad. Bevls Frond,
the Cynics. Iggy Pop. Soundgarden and Motorhead.
and let’s not forget Hawkwlnd.

MRR: Pete, you write most of the lyrics for the band.
Name some songs and ten me what they're about.
Pete: The songs are mostly about standard fare,
about people and relationships, and society as a

the realization that we all have faults and that we can
try to work together to make any situation better. The
main character of Gotta Getaway is a wealthy girl
who gives up money and her station In life to find
herself.

MRR: Is It hard for you to play drums end sing at
the same time?

Pete: It took a year for me to be able to sing and
drum simultaneously. This Is the second project In a
row that I've sung lead vocals on. The Naked Bakers
lasted two years, and The Assassins are now on two
years so It's pretty much second nature to me now. I
dont think I'd be Interested In another project where I
wasn't singing lead.

MRR: Adam, you seem to use a few effect* on your
music, especially when playing out. What kind of
reponse do you get from it?

Adam: Most people are Into It. I never bury
something entirely In noise. It’s not Just at random.
Effects can really help to bring out a song especially
since we are a 3-plece outfit. Of course there are a
ton of ‘Juvenile guitar heroes' out there that say

Too many times bands follow musical trends
that eventually suffocate a particular musical style.
Case In point, punk bands crossing over to thrash
metal causing an overflow of mindless groups with
nothing valid to say and Just dwelling on pain and
death.

Keith Grave was sucked Into such a movement
back In 1985 when he played bass for the newly
christened death metal band The White Pigs.

Talking about a 180 degree turn, people
accused us of being the Connecticut Spinal Tap.
Even though we played with TSOL and BattalHon of
Saints the best thing for me was being fired by those
guys. I was miserable playing for them and I
couldn't care less about our Combat released EP.

After doing stints with Free Love Society and ‘
the Dispossessed. Grave has hooked up with another
Ct. scene veteran. Pete Picclo and newcomer Adam
Bomb on guttar to form Sanity Assassins. The band
combines ‘60s psychedelic with a late 1970s hard
rock punk sound. I caught up wtth them shortly after
their first EP on Tombstone was released. Interview
by Kart.

MRR: Wei, what's up with you guys?

Keith: Diana Ross wants to cover two of our tunes!
And my infection is almost gone!

Adam: I'm all right and I even think I should be.
Anyone seen my beer?

Pete: I just finished it. Oh. we should mention our
producer Ted Rudzls. because he would bitch and
moan and probably be a dick if we didn't and this
interview ever came out.

MRR: O.K. The Blowtorch Lovodoll EP Is out on
Tombstone records now and it's in mono. Why did
you guys put it out in this form?

Keith: Well Tombstone Records is Fred Cole's label
and his band. Dead Moon, and the label are making
quite a name for themselves. When we were offered
a chance to be on It we jumped at It. The mono thing
doesn't bother us. not only that but it's sort of an art
statement or something like a ‘fuck you to all* the
slick produced punk bands who are selling out and
forgetting about their roots.

MRR: How is the record doing and what about your
new demo?

Keith: The record Is sold out now. mostly taken up by
American distributors. It's gotten a lot of really good
reviews from magazines from all over the place. Our
next single will be out soon, also on Tombstone. Our
new demo was sent all over the place and various
songs have been put on a shitload of comp tapes
and comp vinyl. The Tragic Life comp record will be
out pretty soon. The tape has been getting good
reviews too. We feel the tape Is good for magazine
exposure and to Interest any companies, but some
of It would have to be re-recorded to put out some
serious vinyl.

MRR: In listening to your demo you seem to have a
I of of influences. A bit of Subpop comes out. ‘60s
punk/psych and some early '60s hardcore. Since
you're into your second year now do you think
you've found your style or will you keep being a
sort of musical grabbag?

whole. I do try to write lyrics In a way that is unusual,
you know, not Just spoon. June, balloon. ‘Calling-Out*
is about not letting life pass you by. about seizing it
and doing what you want. ‘Hope to Grow* deals wtth

the realization that we all have faults and that we can
try to work together to make any situation better. The
main character of Gotta Getaway is a wealthy girl
who gives up money and her station in fife to find
herself.

MRR: Is it hard for you to play drums and sing at
the same time?

Pete: It took a year for me to be able to sing and
drum simultaneously. This is the second project in a
row that I've sung lead vocals on. The Naked Bakers
lasted two years, and The Assassins are now on two
years so It's pretty much second nature to me now. I
dont think I'd be Interested in another project where I
wasn't singing lead.

MRR: Adam, you seem to use a few effects on your
music, especially when playing out. What kind of
reponse do you get from It?

Adam: Most people are Into It. I never bury
something entirely in noise. It's not Just at random.

Effects can really help to bring out a song especially
since we are a 3-plece outfit. Of course there are a
ton of ‘juvenile guitar heroes' out there that say
anyone could do It - what a fucking insult to all the
people who write music with effects. Are these
people saying anyone could play like. say.
Hawkwlnd or the Butt hole Surfers?

MRR: Did you play in any other bands we don't
know about before Joining the Sanity Assassins?
Adam: I used to Jam with a lot of short projects that
never got anywhere. But I got to meet a tot of people
this way and I went to the area shows. Pete's old
band The Naked Bakers used to open for the
Dispossessed so that's how I hooked up with them.
This Is the first project that got anywhere.

MRR: Pete, you said you played in The Naked
Bakers. What kind of band was that? Did you put
anything out?

Pete: The Bakers were an enigma; we had no
following but everybody knew about us. It was just a
2-piece band drums and Chapman stick, really very
experimental. We played out for a year and a half.
People Just didn't know what to think, seeing a
drummer vocalist and a guy playing some weird
instrument.

MRR: Are you guys playing out a lot?

Adam: Not as often as we want to but we are picking
up more shows as of late. This summer we will be
playing shows around the east coast, especially
after the new single Is out. We've had some good
gigs around here. When we started wo got to do one
with Tad at the Populous Pudding and we just got to
do a show with the Cynics. We definitely want to play
In Boston soon... some good clubs are up there.

MRR: Keith, what U your history on the scene?

Keith: Back In the beginning of the '80s I played for
Zak and the Sodaboys. It wa9 an outrageous punk
band and Zak was realty cocky and obnoxious. After
that I Joined The White Pigs and It was cool for
awhile... They were hardcore turned metal. We got
to play out quite a bit. Some of them got big egos
and tt later ruined the band. Next project I was
Involved with was Free Love Society. We were only
around for a short while but we did get a single
released. Then I went Into The Dispossessed. That
was a sort of gothic/garage band. When The
Dispossessed split up all of us went different
directions. When Jeremy. Dispossessed guitar, died
we got back together and asked Adam and Pete to
Join us for a benefit show for the Samaritans. After that
show us three decided to start this project because
the other two wanted to work on their own thing. Back
In the days of the Pigs I really got Into buying
underground music magazines for contact
addresses and now I'm In contact with people
around the world. It really helps In keeping In touch
with everything that Is going on.

MRR: You say you are Into the music magazines,
but didn't The White Pigs slag MRR?

Keith: That was on the back of The Sonas of Sin
album. That album was recorded back In 1985 and
1986. The front artwork was done by an artist for the
Hartford Courant. which I personally feel Is great
cover art. After I was kicked out. their replacement
finished up the recordings. Then those Idiots finished

’ up the back artwork.’ and they also kicked my car
doors In and stole the master from the earlier
sessions. That back cover is Just an example of how
their arrogance ruined them. Now the record Is
released and It's four years out of date.

MRR: Anything to say in closing?

Keith: The Assassins are going to be released on Full
Circle Records In the fall, an album and cd. When
that comes out we will definitely be playing but
everywhere. The next single is called Gingerbread

Nightmare and will be a total grunge freakoutt
Adam: Anyone who wants to correspond can write
to Dagger Tapes/ PO BOX 380152/ East Hartford. CT
06118. And also a word to cover bands: you all fucking
suck... *

Keith: I put out Dagger Tapes. They're comp tapes
that go world wide, so send your demos out! Just mail
them to the Dagger address.

Pete: We plan tjn recording aulte a bit from now on
and we’re gonna release everything we can. so look
for It.

CORN FLAKES Is a band from Barcelona. They
are: Salvador - bass and 18 years old. Abel - guitar
and 15 years old. Willy - drums and 19 years old.
and Alfred - singer and 18 years old.

All the members are learning at school but in
their spare time Alfred and Willy skate a lot and
Salvador and Abel prefer something in relation with
music.

Since the beginning they wanted to have a
different stylo from the bands of their area, a new
style but with hardcore roots. Their likes and
influences are the Misfits. 7 Seconds. Descendents,
Bad Religion, Jingo De Lunch. Hard Ons. Dag Nasty...
They also listen to other kinds of music but It has to
have dignity.

Five months later of being together, they
released their 1 1-song demo ‘No Comment.* It was
badly recorded in the Music House studios in 9 hours.
Only one hour was usod for the final mixes.

They've gotten good reviews of the demo and
they have been playing a lot. They let people to
participate in their gigs; moshing. singing... if nothing
is damaged. They were going to play with Jingo De
Lunch In Barcelona but the owner of the club did not
want anymore bands. More recently, they had to
cancel a gig with Verbal Assault In the Basque
Country.

. The lyrics are their opinions on social problems,
but they do not want to preach. They want people to
pay more attention to lyrics. They sing In English
because their influences come from the U.S.A. In
their next productions they will Include translations of
the lyrics to Spanish.

The 28th and 29th of December they recorded
a 7-song 7"EP in Sonomania studios. There are two
songs from the demo with five new ones. It was
produced by Jordi (B-Core Productions). It will be
titled ‘No Problem." The songs are faster and more
melodic, like early 7 Seconds.

Contact: Salvador Morb/ C-Barcelona #32-3-1/ 08301
Mataro/ Barcelona. Spain

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June. 7990 in the home Or SUBWAY ARTS 1 drummer in
Lamadolaine. Luxembourg. Ail the band members:

' Francois (bass). Claude (drums). Dlff (guitar) and
, David (vocals). Interview by Luk Haas.

\ MRR: Can you tell me when and why you created
the band?

j Claude: About one year ago Dlff and I wanted to
1 form a punk/HC band. Then David and Francois
I joined in July 89.

MRR: What were your motivations?

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sw; Esch-Sur-AJiette. Is It still right?

D: I don't know who told this. There are skins, right. We i

!&• have no problems with them because we know them

all.

C: Luxembourg is a very small country. There are not
m many skins, not many punks. wwM

fl’S MRR: But who comes to your concerts?

D: Normal people, people like us.

MRR: Lots of people at concerts?

D- About 120-150. It’s very good for Luxembourg. Hard

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»ea in jury ov. u: adout izu- i w. ii » vwy umo. i

R: What were your motivations? or heavy metal bands have about 100 people. But

Diff: To show people that we too are able to do their audience is the same as ours.

something. 4W . . MRR: Where do you situate yourselves in the world

C- At the beginning it was only for fua then we thought pU nk movement? Contacts abroad? You’re only a

it wasn't enough. We had to show people we were f#w kilometers from France, Belgium and Cermany.

Are you influenced by one of these scenes?

C: We re rather Influenced by British punk and U.S.

■"$$3 hardcore. fsirib*

F: I'm listening to a tot of German punk.

; here.

D We have texts about politics, drugs, social ones...
j But we don't only want to say people what we're
s thinking about.

1 MRR: Your Idea of punk in Luxembourg?

i D: It doesn't exist here.

MRR: No other band? (note: the DESPERATE MINDS
split up at the end of ’89)

| D: MICROLAX. They Just begun. They did one one gig
I In Esch recently.

, MRR: Your activities, projects? w .

| D: Most of us want to work very seriously on the band.

! David’s still going to school- he's trying to study. I'm
' going to school too but... PRRRRRRRR- Claude will
j pass his exams soon. Frangols is also still at school. I
I personally don’t want to get a job. earning money
! with a job I wouldn't like. I want to make music,
j C: School is OK. It’s warm in winter,
i D- We really want to work on our music, make
concerts In other countries, like Cermany and so on.
j MRR: You said your texts were sometimes political.

J What are you politically?

j D: We got our opinion, but I don't care about politics.

C; We are not racists, never,
j D: Here politics is stupid, only for the money, not
serious, not honest.

JR MRR: There are anyway some alternatives here, me
V ecologists, Greenpeace, the Green Party...

D: Yeah, they are right ones.These ones really do

* something, but the rest not.

MRR: Last year, the Desperate Mi n ds told me there

Vm r: i m iisiening to a iui own w \

D: We know G6g6ne Et Les N* from Longwy, France
(only 10 km away). They played here at the Blue Joke
club.

C: We also know a band from Trier. Germany.
IjWSljfe Swindle. Our last concert was in Trier with them.

MRR: Are there special difficulties playing punk
music in Luxembourg?

Tjfy'd C: If one plays rock, whatever style, hard, heavy.
fcpR thrash, punk or hardcore, people say it s stupid.

D: Here people make blues, jazz. a.S.O.

MRR: But is It the reaction of older people, or of the
ISFS youth too?

D: Rather of older people.

® C: But there are lots of young people who prefer
blues.

F : Most of the young ones here listen to pop.

MRR: What do you think of local popular traditions,
folk music and so forth?

All: PRRRRRRRR... (general laughter)

MRR: What do you think of what will happen to
Europe in 1992? (suppression of all borders Inside
the EEC) , .

D: For Luxembourg, it s not good. Lots of foreigners
"'j will come here...

• MRR: You’re afraid of disappearing?

? D: No. not disappearing. We want to go in other

countries too. We don’t want to stay here. No
chances if we stay here. But for Luxembourgian
society it won't be good. There are already 30% of
foreigners here. If the borders are opening there will^j^j
be a tot more.

MRR: You’re afraid culturally or economically or
what?

D: Economically.

C: It's normalour economical level will be lowered.

Only politicians will benefit from the union of Europe.

D: Now unemployment is very low here.

MRR: You’re afraid it’ll get higher?

D: Yes.

MRR: Tonight's concert will be held in the Blue Joke
club. Have you organized it yourselves?

D: Yeah, we discussed with the boss. The first 100
entries are for us. The price will be FL150 (U.S. $ 3). The
rest is split between the boss and us.

MRR: How many demo tapes have you already
sold?

D: About 100.

MRR: You sell them at gigs?

D: Only at the last concert in Germany. We put some
of them on deposit in record shops here in
Luxembourg.

F: We sold two of them through mail-order for now.

MRR: A last word?

D: Yeah, we would like to play in Belgium. France and
so on. It’s difficult to find contacts. Write us at: Steve
Differding/ 93 rue Pierre Dupong/ 4545 Differdange
/Luxembourg, or at: Francois Laureys/ 18 rue du
Canal/ 4050 Esch-Sur-Alzette/ Luxembourg.

After the interview, the band gave a concert at
the Blue Joke club in Differdange-Obercom. I have
to say that there were just a few people who
attended the gig: about 40 or 50. Among them were
4 nazi skinheads who ruined completely the show,
sleg-helllng and shouting anti-jewish slogans.
Nobody dared to oppose them. Luxembourg is a kind
of 'village country' where everybody know each
other, and it seems that everybody's afraid of the
skins, or of the consequences a physical
confrontation could have. The scene in the south of
Luxembourg (the only in the country?) is really in
danger because of the nazis. I can't imagine its
future If nobody ever oppose the nazi scum. Luk.

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CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS 7” ep, also
known as "400 Fascist" e.p...cuts: Four Hundred Fascists/
Tellyson/Akool. Recorded in mono, released in February
1981, this is the first Italian hardcore record as we know
it,1000 copies pressed on CCM's own Cessofonya records, a
second pressing of 500 copies followed in '82, Cessofonya
also released a T by UPPER JAW MASK,
a pre-CCM project but it wasn't punk at
all. INDIGESTI/WRETCHED split 7*' e.p.
another record that shouldn't be missing
from any serious record collections. 2
bands share this record. INDIGESTI cuts:

No al sistema/Crea veleno/Mai/ Polvere
fastidiosa/Mass media/Detesta. Also
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the shortest Italian song ever recorded,

Detesta: just 3 seconds! WRETCHED
cuts: Schiavo del sistema/Promesse/

Fino infondo/Se nefreaano/ll loro stato/

Usa la tua rabbia/. WRETCHED were the
first example of politically oriented he in
Italy. 1000 copies pressed, no picture
sleeve, released in September '82. EU'S
ARSE: Lo stato ha bisogno di te? bene
fottilo !7 U e.p. Cuts: Europe's arse/Ribelle/

Lui decide/Attacco/Non saro' colpevole/

Schiavi e padroni/Combattili/ 1000
pressed, released in summer '82 on Nuova Farenheit, a
fanzine/record label. EU'S ARSE were a very Discharge-
influenced band from the northeast, put another split single
out with IMPACT in '83 and then broke up. A couple of
members can now be found in a hard rock band called THE
MONKS.

Another rare record worth having is NABAT's

Scenderemo
Nelle Strade 7 M
e.p. Cuts: Scen¬
deremo nelle
strade/Senza
soldi senza casa/
Asociale oi /
La voro/Shock
delle case/ re¬
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'82, a 1000 press¬
ing on their own
C.A.S. records,
this non-fascist
skinband set
apart form the
European nazi
scene since their
early stage, they
were able to pro¬

duce some
catchy punk/ska
tunes with so¬
cially oriented
lyrics. This band
kicked out their
guitarist when he
developed right
wing views (he
plays now for
Skrewdriver)and
replaced him
with an ex-
DIOXINA guitar¬
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up in 86.

DECLINO's 7 M
e.p., known as
Rivolta e nega-
zione e.p., has
cuts: Rivolta e negazione/Scelte imposte/Mortale tristezza/
Terra bruciata/Coscienza distrtuttiva/Nessuna fiducia. Re¬
leased in '83, a 1000 pressed on Controproduzione records.
Live, they were so tight, did a split cassette with Negazione,
put out a 12" e.p. called Eresia on Belfagor records that came
out posthumosly in '85.

FALLOUT'S 7*'e.p. known as Criminal World e.p. Cuts:

■ Criminal World/Work Instigates/

Reagan Hysteria/Punx United/Sick City/
Religious Carnage/Suck/. Released in
October '82,1000 pressed, another 1000
pressing followed in '83, gatefold pic¬
ture sleeve, no label is indicated, this is
the only band who's still playing
\ around. FALL OUT didn't put out more
vinyl til summer of '89 when they re¬
leased their first LP, Mondo Criminale.

And now a couple of anectodes.
Back in '78, four rich kids from Milano
decided to follow the trend coming out
of London and set up a punk band.
MITTAGEISEN recorded and released a
2 song 7'\ known as "Hardcore" 7",
pressed it in just 100 copies, xeroxed
picture sleeve, they distributed it to a
tew record stores in their hometown,
but a week later they were so ashamed
of that single so they came back to the
stores and demanded their copies back! Only 40 copies were
sold at the time, so 60 copies still lie in the guitarists garage.
Also highly collectable is TAMPAX/HITLER SS split 7" . This
record was released in '79, only 500 were pressed and has a
picture sleeve. These two records aren't he at all, just pure late
70's punk rock.As I'm writing this I realize there are more
records that need to be covered, such as PEGGIO PUNX's
Disastro sonoro
7“, SHOTGUN
SOLUTION 7",

IMPACT/EU'S
ARSE split 7",

ROUGH Torino
e' la mia citta 7 1 '

(this can be seen
on the cover of
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LP), NOT MOV¬
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Dolls 7*'. You
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1. Sexy Productions

2. Jenny Z, Rt. 1, Box 3B,
Seymour, Wl 54165

3. Jenny (414)833-7763

4. Various halls in the Green Bay
area, around 400-500 capacity.

5. Food. Can probably find you a
place to stay.

6. After expenses bands get % of
door. Negotiable.

1. Ding Dona Ditch Productions

2. Anthony, 3120 Bloomfield
Lane Apt #1011, Auburn Hills, Ml
48326

3. (313)852-5709
4.100-200 people

5. Lodging ana food available
always.

6. We are non-profit. After ex¬
penses (rent and sound), all
money goes to bands.

V. Amino Caravan Productions

2. Aaron Ruark, 7589
Bearcreek Rd. Fairview ,PA
16415.

3. Aaron: (814) 474-3683 (late

evenings 10-12) leave message
if I'm not home

4. 300 or so.

5. lodging may be available

6. negotiable-call... Let's talk!
I'm a nice guy.

!_. Madison Wisconsin's New
Loft

2. Steve Levine, 112 N. Fairchild
St, Madison, Wl 53703

3. (608)251-7175 9AM-6PM

4. 300 people can enter but
have access to 500 and 800 ca¬
pacity venues

5. Sorry, no housing arrange¬
ments but it's not an expensive
city

6. Half the door goes to bands
(our teen council sells non-alco¬
holic drinks cheap).

1. Positive Productions

2. 623 Grant St #2. Buffalo. NY
14213

3. (716)882-2747 for Devorah
or Mike

4. Various venues

5. Veggie food and floor space
always

6. Negotiable

1. Fourfront Productions

2. Joel Wick, 115 Candlewyck #
704, Kalamazoo, Ml 49001.

3. (616) 383-2710, before 11
pm EST p;ease.

4. A couple of places available,
up to 500 people.

5. Can provide food od lodging.

6. After exspenses, all money
goes to bands, we want to make
sure everybody has a goog time!

1_. Grea and Sheldon Produc¬
tions

2. 22 Belside Dr, Toronto, Ont
M4S 1L4, Canada

3. (416)440-1570

4. Small or big

5. Grub and a place to crash

6. Percentage depending on
number of bands.

1. Hampshire College Alterna¬
tive Music Collective

2. Juliette Brush-Hoover,
Hampshire College, P.O.Box
#276, Amherst, MA 01002

3. Juliette- (413) 549-

4600,ext.296, anytime. If I'm
not there ask for Jen Gallahorn,
Mayk or Chris.

4. Varies- always good turnout,
4 other colleges in valley, so
there's always lots of people
around.

5. Can gaurantee a dinner night
of show (usually pizza) beer, and
alternative beverages. Lodging
is almost definately available.

6. Payment negotiable, always
a flat-rate, however we're a
non-profit organization, so any $
left over goes towards next
show.

JL lllin' Noise Productions

2. Shawn F., 666 Illinois, San
Francisco, CA 94107

3. (415) 861-7549 (msg.)

4. 350 or so bodies.

5. Food and lodging? We'll see.

6. $5/ head. WE're non-profit;
hall gets 50% of door. Bands'
50% gets split according to draw
and touring, fxcess monies
made by halfgo in fund to benefit
SF Women's Bldg. Projects. All
ages.

1. Pleh! Productions/Slipped
Disc Studios/Club To Death

2. 2242 Butler, Dallas, TX
75235

3. (214)637-4404, Sean Bailey

4. 400 - No gangs, always all
ages

5. Food and lodging available

6. Don't do gaurantees, but will
work out a percentage of the
door.

JL ABC-No-Rio

2. 156 Rivington St, NY, N
10010

3. Freddy (718)672-2507 or
Neil (718)782-6448

4. Capacity 100-150

5. Negotiable

6. $4-$5 shows, percentage of
door. Any leftover money goes
to Sauna Room

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ANESTESIA - “Cerebral” cassette

Thrash. Quick songs, really fast pace. The tape won’t let you forget its
presence. Not too much I really do remember though. (CA)

(Auda. de las Agustinas E -1°, 20100 Reteria, Guipuzcoa, SPAIN)

ACCUSED - “Grinning Like An Undertaker”LP

The ACCUSED have been one of the few HC/metal bands who have
consistently kept my attention. Maybe it’s Tommy’s crunching guitar, Blaire’s
inhuman vocals, vicious arrangements... I don’t really know, and I guess it
doesn’t really matter. This isn’t their best record, but this one like all their vinyl,
is worth getting. Check out “M is for Martha” and “Dropping Like Flies.” (WG)
(Nasty Mix, 800 Tower Building, Seattle, WA 98101)

ALL - “Allroy Saves” LP

I was really giving up all hope for theses guys who have really cool punk
roots. Music for them has never been a problem, but the lyrics were too sexist and
mushy! Which makes them really boring, but their new singer Scott saves them
on this one. Scott’s doing well with the lyrics. Melodic punk, with heavy FLAG
and DESCENDENTS roots which makes it pretty good. (HQ
(Cruz Records, PO Box 7756, Long Beach, CA90807)

ANGRY SAMOANS - “D is for the Dead”EP

A UK release with an unreleased studio track from 1982 and three live I
tracks from 1981. The studio track “D for the Dead” is actually a cool slower tune I
with all the patented Samoans spite circa 1982. Live cuts include “Stupid Jerk,” I
“Hitler’s Cock” and the classic “In Love with your Ma,” all performed solidly |
and recorded cleanly. (HD)

(no address)

ARM-“Live” LP

This latest release on the “Your Choice Live Series” juxtaposes complex, I
intricate post-punky guitar with emotional female vocals, to neutral effect. The
band bites off more stylistically than they can deliver musically, though I admire |
their ambitiousness. (SS)

(Tobby Holsinger, Mittelgasse 7, 6501 Niederolm, W. GERMANY)

AUTO-DESTRUCTION - cassette

This tape isn’t the most original thing you’ll hear, but nonetheless, it’s I
solid HC from Mexico. Altho’ I don’t speak Spanish, lyrics seem to be in the |
anarcho vein. This is so D.I.Y. that you have to at least respect it. (LD)

(Auto Destruction do Carlos Cota, 111 First St. Box 15-710, Calexico, CA 92231)

BAD BRAINS/BLACK MARKET BABY - split EP

Way cool and crucial release on the new Yesterday and Today label. The
BMB song, “World at War,” is totally punk rock “I wanna beatup John Wayne”
— yea! Recorded in 1981. The BRAINS side is equally great. Produced by Kim
Kane (SLICKEE BOYS) in 1979, this shows you the true roots of these punk
giants: raw and psycho. (ML)

(Y+T, 1327 J Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852)

BAPHOMFT - EP

If you were to look up “death metal” in the dictionary, guess whose
picture you ’d see? Sorry, I can’t give a more specific description, but that’s what
it is. Sounds like AUTOPSY. The cover is unintentionally funny. Not bad for an
indie release. Should be on Combat. (CD)

(51 Countryside Lane, Depew, NY 14043)

BASTARD - “Controlled In The Frame” EP

Six tracks that sound very reminiscent of later period DISCHARGE
(“Price Of Silence” era) but with a much heavier “stench” vocal style. Pretty fast
and pretty powerful and pretty damn good overall. Self-released too, another
plus, and deserving of some attention. Chris Dodge, check this out. (JY)
(Bastard Records, JAPAN)

BENT - “Actual Footage/Black and Dreams”

Funky basslines, psychedelic guitar work and quite annoying vocals
telling stories from the dark side of the mind. This is from Seattle, though...
(WW)

(GSL Records, 12345 Lake City Way NE #245, Seattle, WA 98125)

BETRAY - EP

Pretty strong stuff here in the SE vein. Some clean and chunky guitar and
stand-out vocals on five songs. Fast pace and cool production. (KG)

(Crucial Response do Peter Hoeren, Kaiserfeld 98, 4200 Oberhausen 1, W.
GERMANY)

ANGELICUS/CHILI CONFETTI - split EP

Two West Berlin bands offering pretty solid slabs of well done hooky I
punk tunage with a fair amount of crunch. ANGELICUS maintains a heavy j
rock/punk stance with ponderous power chording and low register singing. I
CHILI CONFETTI (with ex-EWINGS members) chugs along at a faster, |
slightly poppier pace. Solid and recommended. (HD)

(Cortex, Adalberstr 89,1000 Berlin 36, W. GERMANY)

| BIG TROUBLE HOUSE - “Watered Down/Eden Rock”

I guess the obvious comparison would be to the MINUTEMEN, but this
I goes well beyond that. Quirky punk funk with a jagged edge. Has that been said
before? Oh well, this is a good safe buy. Out of Minneapolis and produced by
Steve “Me and Mike is buddies” Albini. (ML)

(Comm 3,438 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)

SLACK MARKET BABY - “Drunk and Disorderly/Just Like All the Others”

A re-release of these two Ian MacKaye-produced songs recorded in ’86
[from this DC-area band. Really great early-sound ing punk. Basic, consistent,
full. Y+T has also re-released their “Political Suicide” single. Limited blue wax,
1,000 made. (KG)

Y+T, 1327-J Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852)

ANTI SCHISM - “End of Time” EP

Surprisingly cool! I dug this from the start. Anguished howling vocals a|
la IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER with a bit of DIRT thrown in. Mostly foot!
tappin’ thrash. Good cover that’s very CRASS-like in layout. Inteligent but still |
retaining a good sence of humor. Kicks booty. (CD)

(Stereonucleosis, Chris Bickel, 1652 Huckleberry Dr, Aiken, SC 29803)

! BLATHERSKITE - “Pieces of Elizabeth” cassette

A really noisey tape of metally grinding stuff. The vocals sound satanic
but I can’t make out what the singer is growling about. An awful recording of
a combination of really fast fast and slower pounding noise. I can’t say I’m too
fond of this tape but Chris Dodge would probably like it. (CS)

(Andrew J. Francis, 8142 Forsythia Ct., Indianapolis, ID 46219)

BLISTERS - “Off My Back” cassette

Not sure if this is a record as well but the cassette’s slick packaging leads
me to believe it might be. Well, on to the music: It’s pretty rocking melodic stuff
I for the most part. The title song stands out not unlike a harder sounding SOUL
ASYLUM. While some of this verges on college rock, they maintain a strong
punk edge that makes this very cool. (CS)

(Box 166, Green Village, NJ 07635)

BOB EVANS - cassette

Strange name but a fuckin’ great tape. Tight playing that brings to mind
I local heros FUEL but also a rocking sort of HUSKER sound. Fast and furious,
| and catchy at the same time. Write ‘em. (CS)

| (241 Haverhill, N. Reading, MA 01864)

BONEHEAD - cassette

A band made up of members of A PRIORI, FVK/EMG and UNDE¬
CIDED. Sound quality is shitty ‘cause it’s a live radio show. But it’s good punk
music with lots of good raw guitar. I can’t understand the vocals and there’s no
lyric sheet. It’s okay. (JC)

($3 or tape and 75tf postage to Bonehead 17 New St. Apt.8, Newark, DE 19711)

Finally, a full LP from everyone’s fave Columbus, OH neo-retro-rockers! I
If you too grew up on the likes of “Jungle Boy”, “Beg”..well get ready for a
change (not a big change mind you but..). Mick Divvens has lost the 6-0
refrences, beefed up the guitars and has looked Detroitward.His distinct howl is
still intact here along with newfound guitar ammo and TUNES of a classic
stature. Contains the totally essential version of MIKE REPP & THE QUOTAS
“Rocket to Nowhere” too. So jump...(HD)

(Skyclad Records, PO Box 666, Middlesex, NJ 08846)

BROKEN CHINA - cassette

Two songs. One song good folk, the other is a sloppy attempt at being a I
(solid pop-punk band. Doesn’t work well for me, a bit repetitive. (CA)

|($2 ppd to 106 St. James PI., Glenoden, PA 19036)

BULLETS FOR PUSSY - “Penetration Boulevard” EP

A promo 7" with 2 cuts from an upcoming LP and 3 non-lp cuts. The non
LP cuts appear to be old DRUNKS WITH GUNS tunes (BFP lead singer Mike
Doskocil’s infamous ex-band) even though there is no mention anywhere of
DWG. “Drunk’s theme”, “Punched” and “Enemy” are the tunes in question
here. Their inclusion point out an interesting fact. By including the old tunes on
the flip BULLET FOR PUSSY has made it all too evident that in terms of the
hate/cringe factor, DWG had oodles of it and BFP has none. All in all, BFP is by
the numbers DRUNKS WITH GUNS, seemingly the same but not really. (HD)
(Noiseville, PO Box 124, Yonkers, NY, 10710'

I CORNFLAKES - “No Problem” LP

These guys let loose with a blast of melodic power-punk ala SNUFF,
STUKAS, or CRINGER. Their lyrics tend towards a socio-political look at
humankind and, while understandable because it’s sung in English, I think it
would have more power if it was sung in their native language. Overall this is
a really great debut. Thumbs up! (MH)

(Jordi, Aptdo. Co. 35221, 08080 Barcelona, SPAIN)

BUTCH WILLIS - “Shoppping Bang” EP

From the label responsible for JOHNNY COHEN’S LOVE MACHINE
and the “Tube Bar” LP comes a somewhat off-beat yet endearing record. Butch
Willis occupies the same niche occupied by BEAT HAPPENING in that they
both share a similar silly/whimsical worldview. The musical accompaniment is
more jangly/folky than BH and Butch has more a unique off-key warble than
Calvin. Subjects include shopping, TV’s and heartfelt ballads. A cool record,
but not for the aesthetically righteous. (HD)

(Teen Beat, PO Box 50373, Washington, DC 20091)

BUTTSTEAK - EP

Found this one in the bowels of my work place so I know nada about this
pup. Definite garage punk with female vocals. “Wow Groovy Cool” sounds
vaguely like FIRE PARTY. Raw. (WG)

(1065 W. 40th St., Norfolk, VA 23508)

CALAMITY JANE - EP

A bit of a change in style from their demo. Gone is the country twang
replaced by a thick garage sound. Three catchy tunes to boogie to. Almost like
a grungy REDD KROSS. Not totally original, but you can shake your butt to it.
Fun white trash punk. (LH)

(Brimstone Productions, 14435 C St. S #D-20, Tacoma, WA 98444)

CAUSTIC OUTLOOK - “On Life” cassette

These guys would seem to be stereotypical posi-core, but when you take
a look at the lyrics, things would seem to be less than cheerful in Alabama. While
this type of breakneck mosh o’rama hardcore isn’t anything new, these fellas
seem like with time they could evolve into something quite ferocious. (LD)
(2406 Mallard Drive, Birmingham, AL 35216)

CELLOPHANE CEILING - ‘Try” EP

Not too many points in the originality dept, here but overall this is real
competent, well-produced hair-wagging college oriented stuff. More TWIN
TONE than SUB POP. Rocks really good, really!(HD)

(Main Vein Records, PO Box 31635, Omaha, NE 68131)

CHEMICAL PEOPLE - “Do The Right Thing” LP

Well, kids, no sexist lyrics on this one. Pretty cool melodic ’60s post punk
that does what it should. Pretty nice. Cool cover done by Beto (Love and Rockets
comic). (HC)

(Cruz Records, PO Box 7756, Long Beach, CA 90807)

CONCRETE JELLO - cassette

Industrial. Mostly melodic noises, simulated machinery type stuff. Mu¬
sic, with instruments, and a wide range of mixed in noises. OK sound quality and
it comes with some neat stuff. (CA)

(Ed Johnson, 915 King La Crosse, WI 59601)

COPSHQOTCOP - “Consumer Revolt” LP

We’ve all heard of “easy listening;” does “uneasy listening” exist? If so,
these guys have my vote. This is industrial, tribal and experimental, fused with
vicious anger, reminding me of a more warped, insane version of the
BEATNIGS at times. Effective, dangerous, daring and moving; this is basically
amazing. If your idea of “NYHC” is Revelation Records, sink your teeth into this
fucker and change your mind. (WG)

(Circuit, PO Box 67, Merrick, NY 11566)

COURAGE/CONTAGIOUS DISEASE - split LP

0.k. I couldn’t heavily get into this but it’s an impressive effort. CONTA¬
GIOUS DISEASE cranks out some decent hardcpre with what sounds like a S.E.
influence with semi-forced vocals. THE COURAGE side is the epitome of
“emo”. Thinly produced punk with sappy lyrics. Comes with a nice booklet
though. (CD)

(Think For Yourself Records, PO Box 2001, 5001 CA, Tilburg, HOLLAND)

CRAWL - “To Oblivion” cassette

Some really metally sounding stuff here. While these guys say they are
trying to educate the metal audience (they have good lyrics) and stay away from
the standard speed metal sound, the stick to the formula a little too much to
maintain my interest. But if you like the style... (CS)

(4$, Sprake, 1702-15 Kennedy St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 3X5, CANADA)

CRAWLPAPPY/SHEEKTERROR - spilt EP

CRAWLPAPPY hits us with a slow, metallic number, while SHEER
TERROR drives a pounding rocker home. Not bad. Comes with the latest issue
of... (WG)

(Suburban Voice, 17 Beach Rd #1, Lynn, MA 01902)

DAN - “Can You Dig It?” EP

I’m glad this has been repressed. Some of the best tunes by this now
defunct band with some bonus live tracks. Melodic punk and hardcore with
great vocals. If you missed this first time around, I suggest you check this out.
(LH)

(Recordrom, Ruhrallee 1, D-5804 Herdecke, W. GERMANY)

DEATH TRIP - “Chainsaw Goddess/Deep Red”

This record looks really kind of cool, you know, like spooky and evil. So
imagine my surprise when it turned out to be sort of a noisy one-riff, fast polka-
esque thing with a guy screaming over top. But hey, it’s from Finland, so of
course the singer is screaming. The B-side is a noisy one-riff slow dirge thing with
said guy screaming. A least it’s in a class by itself. (ML)

(Bad Vugum, Box 29,90501 Oulu, FINLAND)

DERELICTS - “Misery Maker/Wash”

It’s interesting to see more “core” punk stuff appearing on this label
lately, and between The DWARVES and this band, you’ve got quite a raw,
aggressive sound emerging. Both songs kick ass. (TY)

(SubPop, PO Box 20645, Seattle, WA 98102)

DICKIES - “Just Say Yes/Ayatollah You So”

Yet another UK release of dubious legitimacy, but top-notch in recording
quality and packaging. Apparently “Ayatollah You So” is a demo from 1980 and
is as good as anything the band has done. A very good propulsive catchy
overlooked classic rooted in Carter administration geopolitics. “Just Say Yes”
is a demo from 1990 and is almost as good as the flip side. An essential Dickies
record I think... (HD)

(Overground, PO Box INW, Newcastel-Tyne-Wer NE99 NW, ENGLAND)

DIE KREUZEN - “Pink Flag” EP

A one-off covers single from these midwest kingpins. Their dark super¬
sonic metal feel remains as they rework two classics by WIRE and the GERMS.
Easily a shining moment for this band who continues to grow and shine. A
limited colored vinyl pressing for the first 1,000. (AS)

(Touch & Go, PO Box 25520, Chicago, IL 60625)

DIGOS GOAT - “Testimoni Del Silevzio” LP

Varied punk that’s got a raw guitar sound and raspy oi-like vocals on the
faster tunes and a more psych feel on some slower ones. Very basic punk. (TY)
(Marco Sigismond, 44 Via Roma, 64037 Cermignano {TE}, ITALY)

DILS - LP

This retrospective LP covers all their previously released studio material
(side one), as well a whole side of live material from ’78 - ’79 which is just barely
listenable sound quality wise. Half punk, half folky. (TY)

(Cost Records, PO Box 761129, Los Angeles, CA 90076)

EVERSOR - “The Cataclysm” EP

Ridiculous metal trash — I really thought people knew better. Shrieking I
vocals, and not one good riff on the disc. Bye-bye. (WG) 1

(Minotauro, Via Acqui 5,27100 Pavia, IT ALY)

FALLING IDOLS - “Afro Revival” 12”

While not printed, some of their lyrics are pretty annoying. Seems likes
nobody holds bands accountable on content anymore. It’s too bad because the
music here rages. On that level this reminds me a lot of early punk with a “earaee
meets Detroit with a bit of surf’ rawness. (LH) * I

(BS Records and Noise, 5534 Flagsto ne St., Long Beach, CA 90805)

F-BOYZ - “3 Song Demo” cassette

One worthwhile song out of three captures a great blend of the Seattle!
grunge sound with psychedelic overtones. The other two songs are cheesy MTV|
sounding rockers. (MH)

($3ppd, Bryan Smith, PO Cox 865, San Francisco, CA 94101)

I G-ANX - “Masterpeace” EP

These Swedish noisters get more hectic every time. This offering is great
the way it incorperates the G-ANX brand of ass-kicking, mega-horrifying
thrash with elements of AMBROSIA-influenced cheesiness. You don’t believe
me. Check it out yourself. This destroys! (CD)

| (Elderberry Records, S. Hakeskog, Polstjarner. 2 4 tr, SWEDEN)

I GARGOYLES - “Runnin’ Down/The Goat”

Fuckin’ A! The first San Francisco band to get signed to Sympathy, and
for good reason. These guys and gals kick out some great old style punk rock. If
this were ’77 they could tour with the DEAD BOYS! Oh well, it’s 1990, so dig this
now and shit. (ML) 6

I (Sympathy, 4901 Virginia Ave, Long Beach, CA 90805)

F DEFECTIVE - cassette

This demo kicks ass! Retro/thrash stuff that’s totally punk. All girls on
this one that can really pump out heavy wild sounds, and play. Vocals are SIN
34 sounding with a big L7 influence. This one rocks. (HC)

(PO Box 9663, Fountain Valley, CA 92708)

FIDELITY JONES - “Venus On Lovely/Destructor”

I’m sure they’re well-meaning people. But this music is pretty cheesy.
And these lyrics... “Dance ‘til Hated Ceases”? I’d prefer a hand grenade any day.
I’m not gonna tell anyone what to believe. But I don’t buy this Shiva stuff either.
Nothing personal, folks. (LH)

(Dischord Records, 3819 Beecher St. NW, Washington DC 20007)

GO AHEAD/HELL’S KITCHEN - split 45

THE FIFTH COLUMN - cassette

This all girl band out of Canada rips. They are pretty fuckin’ tight! I hear
lots of “Love Dolls” here, melodic garage punk that hits you where you need to
be hit. Great work on this one, girls, don’t pass this one up! (HC)

($8.00 ppd from Hide Records, PO Box 1110 Adelaide Sta., STV Toronto, Ont,
CANADA M5C 2K5)

| GHOUL SQUAD - “The Fun Never Stops”cassette

Slow mid-tempo stuff from Palo Alto. Vaguely DANZIG-ish vocals. They
actually do a cover of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (scary... sheesh.) Kind of
buzzy guitars which are nifty tho’. (LD)

($6 ppd to Nosferatu Prod., 3790 El Camino Real, Suite 218, Palo Alto CA
94306)

GO! - “Root Canal” flexi

One side is from an ABC-No-Rio show from May of’90; the other is from
WFMU from June. The radio side’s sound is pretty hot, while ABC’s side doesn’t
have that full, layered sound — but it’s totally cool because you feel like you’re
right there hearing the band. 13 songs, mostly from GO!’s two 7 M EPs. Hot and
punk. (KG)

(Rebound Records do Ryan Sikorski, 10 Alexis Ct, Holmdel, NJ 07733)

The GO AHEAD cut is a classic bit of powerhouse hardcore, a melodic
and rapidfire track that’s immediately memorable. It put me in such a good
"mood, I didn’t even take the needle off the HELL’S KITCHEN side. Comes with
he latest issue of... (TY)

Ox do Joachim Hiller, Goetherstr. 28, 7920 Heidenheim, W.GERMANY)

FISHWIFE - EP

Strange off-beat music that has its roots slightly in punk as well as simple
rock. The song structures are made up of several different parts and tempos and
are backed by an always quarky rhythm. The vocals are also varied but are more
annoying that anything. (MS)

GROOVY GHOULIES - “Lost Generation” EP

A German release for these California-based purveyors of RAMONES-
ian pop-punk. “Lost Generation” can be found on their last LP and there’s two
new cuts that continue in the hooky, feelgood, toe-tapping groove. Che’ groovy.
(HD)

(Gift of Life, Turmstr. 45, 4300 Essen 1, W. GERMANY)

GUILT MONKEY - cassette

Weird freaked out melodic MUDHONEY sounding punk with fantastic
effects that blow away any SubPop-like band could be the MELVINS mating

FIVE FOOT NOTHING - “Pretty Nuclear” cassette

There’s a lot of bands coming out with good music but with very “I love 1
her” lyrics — that’s OK though, the BEATLES started that way too. Anyway 1
these is very late DESCENDENTS/ALL influenced, not just music-wise, also 1
lyrically. (EC)

($5 ppd to 2090 Blueridge Dr, Pickering, Ont L1X 2N3, CANADA)

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I G-WHIZ - “Weightloss Plan” EP

If you love ALL’S music but hate their attitudes, check this band out.

I Really fun music that falls somewhere between ALL and GREEN DAY. The

I kind of music to jump up and down on your bed to. (LH)

1 (No Reality, PO Box 10383, Torrance, CA 90505)

FORCE FED - “Full Up and Loaded” EP

Another piece of thrashy, disjointed, semi-metal rock’n’roll from Nott’s
finest! Short, sharp and to the point. Limited edition pressing on colored vinyl.
Side two is the better of the two here, but it still needs a little more to really
interest me. (JY)

(Limited Ed Rees do Flat 2, 5 Wordsworth Rd, Westbridgeford, Nottingham,
NG2 7AN UK)

HERETICS - “Omnivore” LP

Yeow! Dirty long-haired-retro-wall-of-Marshall-stack rock of the first
order. At least that’s the impression I got on the first cut. Rest of the LP seem to
maintain the decibel/distortion level but on some cuts, an annoying pop sensibil¬
ity creeps in that threatens to undermine their ‘rock thing”. Thus the results are
schizophrenic, a band that can’t decide on more pop or rock. The straight ahead
ROCK tunes are actually pretty good in an early MOTORHEAD way. But
there’s no excuse for the totally atrocious version of “White Room”. More misses
than hits on this one. (HD)

(Get Hip, PO Box 666, Canonsburg, PA 15317)

F.U.C.T - “Dimensional Depth Perception” cassette

These guys .seems to be trapped in the mid ’80s, when metal-punk
crossover was next big thing. Here you get big guitars, heavy drumming and
“death and destruction” lyrics. Don’t look for the vinyl, CD or cassette release
only. (EC)

(Carlyle records, PO Box 150708, Nashville, TN 37217)

HOMETOWN ATROCITIES - “You’re Going Home”

Sometimes they sound like JOHN CALE, sometimes like GREEN DAY
and mostly somewhere in between, if that’s possible. (TY)

(1 Parliament Street, Exeter, ENGLAND)

THE FUMES - “Dial Dial Dial” cassette

I love getting tapes that I can really enjoy! Catchy tunes! Hard guitar and
very experienced lyrics to go with great vocals. Sounds like early YOUTH
BRIGADE and TSOL meet my fave, AMERICAN STANDARD. This one’s a
winner so pick it! (HC)

($5.00 ppd from E420 Carriage St., Spokane, WA 99218) __

HUNGER FARM - “Dante’s Escape Route” EP

An interesting mix of pop sensibilities (reminds me on occasion of latter
day DICKIES) and a tough post-hardcore sound that would appeal to fans of
everything from JAWBREAKER to Touch & Go bands. Their second release.
(TY)

(Nemesis)

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IMBIBES - “100 k L’Heure/Chantier Reggae

KGGM ■ EP

The A-side is credible fast pop-punk with solid energy to spare, while the
flip powers traditional reggae stylings to flattering, often powerful effect. A cut
above the standard, and recommended. (SS)

(Ripost Records, 23 Route de Villeflanzy, Villebaron, 41000 Blois, FRANCE)

Not as frantic as a lot of Japanese stuff coming in these days, but without
a doubt it’s just as pissed off. Six fist waving thrashers on a wobbly flexi. Shout
along chorus’ over driving h.c. Cool baby! (CD)

(Loose Nut, no address, JAPAN)

IMPACT WRENCH • “Amidst the Confusion” cassette

KILL CITY - EP

Fast,thrash punk. I hear more drums than anything else. Not too original
but still drives itself into you. (CA)

(PO Box 9386, St. Paul, MN 55109)

INFLATABLE CHILDERN - “Happy as a Boston Clam Chowder Mix” cassette

Some jrip -roaring hardcore out of the Boston area. Pounding thrash wih
slower dancing moshing parts but not generic. First rate stuff that makes you
want to jump up and down. (CS)

(119 Minuteman Dr., Concord, MA 01742)

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Four powerful and rockin’ tunes. Hits way harder than their 12 M . Driving
punk and hardcore with fun interplay among all the musicians. Strong yet
tuneful vocals. “Ask Me On Another Day” kicks my butt (LH)

(Meantime Records, 11 Salutation Rd., Darlington, CO. Durham DL3 8JN, UK)

Not overtly STOOGE-ish as one might be led to believe from the name.
Pretty much straightforward type melodic punk/psych that seems more com¬
mercial and less garage-ish than most recent releases on this label. (HD)
(Dionysus, PO Box 1975 Burbank, CA 91507)

KLAN - “Pushin’ to Hard/Cover Girls”

Originally released in 1980, this SoCal punk release did not have a picture
sleeve, which is remedied this time around. They do a SEEDS cover and another
raunchy garage tune. (TY)

(Poshboy)

KNIEVELS - cassette

Two songs. Sounds like a “girl band” or the BEATLES but is neither.
Poppy melodies with good “sensitive” vocals. (CA)

(Terry Banks, 1060 30th St NW, Washington, DC 20007)

INSPECTOR 12 - “Still On You” cassette

LANCE KAUFMAN - “Peaceful Amazon Village/They Dug Up Elvis”

These guys got the modern hard core sound down pat. A deep heavy sound
lead by a pounding snare drum and chunky guitar. I like the faster stuff more
but for some reason this type of hardcore doesn’t click too much. Still, a strong
effort and slick packaging. (CS)

(504 Chestview Dr., Madison, WI 53716)

INSYTE - “Squatl/Groove”

Well this is a funny little record. The lyrics are about squatting, animal
rights, alienation... But side A is a great catchy ska song and side B is a cool punk
tune reminding me of the X RAY SPEX. A lot of good ideas here. (LH)

(PO Box 163, Nth Carlton 3054 Victoria, AUSTRALIA)

INTERNAL AUTONOMY - “...Inquiry” LP

A very atmospheric band. Panoramic guitars with strong female vocals.
Sort of a mix between POISON GIRLS and early X MAL DEUTSCHLAND.
Likewise, the lyrical content is largely political from an anarchist perspective.
Some pretty ambitious ideas. Fun and idealistic. (LH)

(Recordrom, Ruhrallee 1, D-5804 Herdecke, W. GERMANY)

Yeow... “They dug up Elvis” is truely twisted R&B music from hell. A
clanging mess of the old “Peter Gunn” riff, careening saxaphones and raspy,
crazed grung-a-billy vocals. Sorta reminds me of BARRENCE WHITFIELD &
THE SAVAGES meets the CONTORTIONS. A fun,fun tune. The A-side,
“Peaceful Amazon Village,” however, is not so spectacular. Basically, a take-off
of old MARTIN DENNY “Exotica” records which degenerates into noise.
Worth it for the righteous B-side. (HD)

(Dionysus, PO Box 1975 Burbank, CA 91507)

LAUGHING HYENAS - “Here We Go Again” EP

What can I say about this band that I haven’t said before? They’re
probably one of the best things going in this country, on an amazing label, to
boot. This is the STOOGES meet THE BIRTHDAY PARTY with a blues base,
charged with vicious, relentless energy. Too incredible for words. (WG)
(Touch & Go)

i'HE LAZY COWGIRLS - “Jungle Song/Rock of Gibraltar”

Both songs recorded live at a SoCal radio station, which captures this
band’s great live sound. Loud guitar, pounding drums, great sing-a-long vocals,
all kept to a traditional rock’n’roll foundation but cut loose with a raw punk
energy and attitude. (MS)

(Dog Meat, GPO-Box 2366U, Melbourne 3001, AUSTRALIA)

LIFE BUT HOW TO LIVE IT? - LP

THE IRRELEVANT - “ Praise-a-thon” cassette

Straightforward simplistic thrash stuff. Screaming vocals. Metallic type
guitars. Smart political/social lyrics. Sounds good. Should get better with time.
12 songs in all. (JQ

($4 to Tom Brignall, 4109 Mahoney Portage, MI 49002)

JAYWALKER • “Free Energy Through... “ cassette

This is a cool tape. JAYWALKER have a dark sound, that’s noisy and
heavy. Maybe could be called post-punk with some metal influences thrown in
and a healthy dose of, say, JOY DIVISION. Interesting. (CS)

($5, Tumult, 2336 Market St. #107, San Francisco, CA 94114)

J.M.K.E. - EP

Side one sounds a little like SLIME, only in a beer hall style. Side two is
more basic thrashy type of affair. Not too outstanding really. From Estonia.
(JY)

(Twin Tone Oy, PO Box 301, 00121 Helsi nki, FINLAND)
J^SSr^^^^SugaTship/Eczema 1 ^

Second 7” from these emerging noizemakers. This is midwestern skonk -1
cum-jazz-noise not unlike bands like the STRIPMINERS (okay they’re from
NY and severly underated in my humble opinion) and REPULSE KAVA.
“Sugar Ship” grooves as mightily as any other MN band and has a twisted
arrangement to boot But the tune that really turns my goat is “Eczema” which
grooves even mightier with a SCRATCH ACID like fury and a furious barrage
of guitar gronk.(HD) '

(Project A Bomb, 2541 Nicollet Ave. S, Minn. MN. 55404)

JUNGLE FISH - “Tapped” cassette

Great cassette from Orcutt, CA. Six quick ‘n’ heavy tunes with lyrics I
ranging from rain forests to animal rights to why losers like myself who think
Cali, is the center of the universe should just go home. This is very cool. You I
should buy it. (LD)

($3.50 ppd, 1260 Ken Ave., Orcutt, CA 93455

A new installment in the “Your Choice Live Series”. I don’t know who
chose this one. Actually, this isoneof the cleanest, best soundinglive records I’ve
heard. Musically you ’ ve got a Norwegian VERB AL ASSAULT here. Impressive
packaging, too. (CD)

(Mittelgasse 7,6501 Nieder-Olm, W. GERMANY)

Recorded live at Iguana’s in Tijuana Mexico. For the most part no new
| ground broken here. This is rippin’, moshin’ hardcore. Recording quality and
kpackaging is very professional. (MH)

\PO Box 16377, San

1INDROT - “1990 Demo” cassette

Grinding guitars, thump thump thumping drums, burnt vocal chord
vocals. Good lyrics, poetic. A bit metalish. Great effort. (CA)

|($2.50 ppd to Leverage, PO Box 4573, Laguna Beach, CA 92652)

| MONSTER MAGNET - “Lizard Johnny/Freak shop U.S.A.”

One of the coolest singles in awhile. They take the grunge thing (k la
MUDHONEY or whoever) throw in some good old NY art damage and like
I maybe some GOD BULLIES intensity for good measure and come up with a
monster of a 7 M . (ML)

[(Circuit Records, PO Box 67, Merrick, NY 11566)

MUTLEY CHIX - “Burn Your Bra” cassette

This long time Gainesville band sounds more like their from LA for some
reason, maybe it’s the vocals (which remind me of LA gothic punk bands of times
past). I guess this is alright but I can’t really get into this slowish dirgey stuff.
(CS)

($4, Mutley Chix, POB 15241, Gainesville, FL 32604)

NAKED ANGELS - cassette

Lots of changes, fast,slow, could be boring if listened to it too long, butl
they have one rock tune I like that has a late CREAM feel, weird coming from!
a S.E. band, there’s no lyric sheet, I think it’s pretty much U unity&pride”l
territory. (EC) 1

($3. ppd Naked Angels, PO Box 10110, Winston-Salem, NC 27108)

NAPALM DEATH - “Suffer the Children” 12 M

Well this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for. It’s the vinyl debut I
of the new N.D. line-up. And the verdict is ....eh. I gave it a spin the first time and
wasn’t too happy. I listened to it a week later and liked it more. Definately ain’t
what it used to be. More metal than speed these days.Nice cover & production. I
You can decide. (CD)

(Earache, PO Box 144, Nottingham, NG3 4GF, UK)

NEW WAVE HOOKERS - “Cum On Everybody” EP

Garage punk that’s obsessed with porno film stars. The band says, “Good
porno movies have nothing to do with sexism.” You decide. (TY)

(S. Schmidt, Berg Str 35, 8613 Breitengiissbach, W. GERMANY)

NIGHTMARE “Give Notice Of Nightmare” LP

I took a look at the polished-looking cover and the number of tracks and I
prepared myself for a slow, dirgy excursion. But when I slapped this muthafucka
on the turntable, it slapped me right back. Powerful production makes this
sound like SUBVERT with Froggy of “Our Gang” on vocals. A blistering
sumbitch from Japan. A “must get”! (CD) 1

(no address, JAPAN)

NO FALL - EP

Simple structure metalcore with limited spastic outbursts. Intelligent j
lyrics. Raw production. “Wonderful World” is the stand out for me. Pretty good
(CD) J 6 * 1

(Snoop Records, Am Geierberg 17,3153 Lahstedt 1, W. GERMANY)

NUNS - “In the Shadows/Invisible People”

This is newer NUNS stuff (1989). The A side sounds like BLONDIE and j
the flip is metallic rock. Not too exciting. (TY)

(Poshboy)

ONCE AND FOR ALL - ‘Thinking Man’s World” EP

HC meets CHILI PEPPERS whiteboy funk with so-so lyrics. They look
young so they may grow to be monsters, but this one seems a bit premature.
(WG)

(Nemesis)

ORIGINAL DISEASE - cassette

Sounds sorta like the INSTIGATORS. 22 songs in all, mid-tempo to fast
stuff. Good sound quality for a live recording, interesting vocals, couldn’t
understand the lyrics though. (JC)

( $5 U.S., $6 Europe to Francois Beuthiaux, 11 Rue des Martelots, 25000
Besanqon, FRANCE) 1

PAPER TULIPS - “Insects” LP

. j Chappy P un ^ LP, with its paired male and female vocals, re- i
minded me of a rawer, less soulful X; the analogy even holds so far as the band’s
poetic lyrics are concerned. Tight, with nice guitar — a pleasing Daekapp
(Flipside, PO Box 363, Whittier, CA 90608) P ^ ? ^ (SS) 1

PARABELLUM - LP ————

PARABELLUM employs a biting, riff-oriented punk thak works well in
a high-speed mode with the guitars up loud. Happily, that’s more than half the
time on this LP, making for a set of pleasant kinetic rockers. Boisterous, with a
nicely fleshed-out guitar sound. (SS)

(37 Rue de Brest, Rennes 35000, FRANCE)

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merely test press legends in the early ’80s, or came out but never had picture

iiV n ° W d a 1 „ hls " nc khyaBay Area band that had that definiteSoCal
melodic HC sound. Good stuff. (TY)

(Poshboy)

NAMLAND - cassette

In one word, “rules!” In two words, “It rules!” In twenty words, “Ass-
kicking, punchy grindcore with members of IMPULSE MANSLAUGHTER I
and EYEGOUGER that I heavily dig so don’t miss, fool! (CD)

(TY, 2303 N. Bigelow, Peoria, IL 61604)

PATARENTI “From Here To Eternity” EP

An insane live record from these Yugoslavian noise pioneers. Fourteen
rpm^Cwr^CD)^ Rapid * flre choice sten <* noise. Like E.N.T. played at 78
(Davor Kodzoman, Tuskanova 26, 41000 Zagreb, YUGOSLAVIA)

| PRIMROSE PATH - “Going Cheap” cassette

A poppy band that seems to strive to be a little more. A wide range of
styles, mostly pop, but a bit of funk, punk influences built in. It’s a keeper. (CA)
| (Schansstraat 77,1531 CE Wormer, HOLLAND)

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Although I overuse the word, this is indeed “powerful.” CARCASS and
I BOLT THROWER interspersed would sound like this, I reckon. Chunky metal
tinged heaviness. Crunchy and clean. Get wise to these guys. (CD)

(Deaf Records, UK)

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THE NIDS - “The Mean Album” cassette

Great nerdcore here, angry punk with funny lyrics. Sounds like CODE
OF HONOR’S second LP. Pretty neat, but not their best, but it’s their last. (HC)
($3.50 ppd from 3209 E. 10th Street V8, Bloomington, IN 47408)

Really good sound on this 5-songer, and a neat package, too. Keen, quick
SE with very spelled-out lyrics. The vocal style kinda reminds me of VERBAL
ASSAULT. (KG)

|(Speed-Air-Play Records, Rubi Zollinger, Birmensdorfstr. 91, 8003 Zurich,
SWITZERLAND)

| PSYCHO - “Fuck Off Live ’89" EP

Ferocious, frantic and fuckin’ furious. PSYCHO has gotten so apocalyp-
I tic these past few years, it’s amazing. Unforgiving aggression wrapped in a
chaotic cyclone. Only 300, so good luck. (CD)
j (Seth, PO Box 101, W. Newton, MA 02165)

Brazilian metal thrash that’ll have every mosh fanatic moshing like mad.
11 especially like the chorus to the song “Mosh.” It goes “Mosh! Mosh! Mosh!”
You gotta love it. ANTHRAX would be proud. (CD)

(Maggot Records, 51 Bd Auguste Blanque, 75013 Paris, FRANCE)

| RAID - “Words Of War” EP

More dumb as shit music from yet another group of men that are so full
I of themselves that they fail to realize that they are what they hate. Very
reactionary thought control type lyrics that are a perfect example of extreme left
wing merging with fascist right wing. The music is standard heavy mosh that is
a bit sloppy and predictable. Too bad this isn’t just a sick joke. Fuck this. (MS)

| (Hardline, PO Box 490, Laguna Beach, CA 92652)

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Hailing from fun-filled Fresno, this is a 4 live songs, 1 interview, 2 old
I demo songs cassette. Basically your average crummy recording quality nine
I million mile an hour HC. It seems very sincere, but it lacks anything that reache
I out and bites. (LD)

j ($3 ppd., Bezerk Tapes, 9890 Tamarack, Brecksville, OH 44141)

Both these songs are from 1979 sessions (back when Greg Hetson was in I
I the band) and appeared on their first two releases. Great stuff, and well worthl
I it for the back cover pic alone (where these guys look about 9 years old) (TY) I
| (Poshboy) _“__ 71

| REDRUM - “Tape” cassette

Sounds like MUD HONEY without the superfuzz and less emphasis on
I the vocals. On special red colored cassette! (CA)

I (Vittorio Achille, Via Fraccarolo 2,27028 S. Martino Siccomario, ITALY)

REST IN PIECES - “Under My Skin” LP

Is this stuff really that popular in NYC? Guess it must be, but who knows
why. Mid-tempo ’70s rock approach with “now” METALLICA riffs thrown in
for popular appeal. Lyrics deal with life on the streets in the Rotten Apple.
Street-tough photo on the back, too, to top it off. I don’t know, I guess someone
likes this stuff, right? Guess my New York visit is in jeopardy now. (JY)
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THE RICK MIAMI PAD - “She Lost Her Mind” LP

Some if this is catchy in a gar agey way. But a lot of it is monotonous power-1
pop played with very little zeal. Some of it’s fun. Some it’s total cheese. I dunno. I
Just sorta boring... (LH)

(Uniray Records, 761 Cayuga St., Lewiston, NY 14092)

1 SLUDGE - “Suicide Drive/Move On You”

Ugh... the A-side is dumb biker-sludge-rock in the ZODIAC

I MINDWARP mold. “Move On You” however is actually tolerable and pretty

I good. Maybe that’s because I have a soft spot for songs that sound like a faster

I version of the ONLY ONES “Another Girl, Another Planet.” (HD)

| (Sympathy, 4901 Virginia Ave, Long Beach, CA 90805)

RIKK AGNEW’S YARD SALE - “Think of the Children/Feel for Me”

The interesting juxtaposition of song titles made me hope for some of the
old ADOLESCENTS magic here. While “Feel...” has shades of the old sound,
RIKK opts for a growly, abrasive punk sound without much nuance, and ditto
for the flip. Fairly routine. (SS)

(Triple-X Records, 8715 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 284, Hollywood, CA 90028)

SMILING APE - cassette

Nearly a funk band, slow- to mid-tempo with a well-refined sound. Good
singing with funny lyrics. The tape has a variety with four or so songs. (CA)

(1 Fox Chase Dr., Harrisburg, PA 17111)

CM A U'U'PTT . “Wacfp/Millimi”

RISE FROM THE DEAD - flexi

New band from Osaka featuring ex-members of S.O.B., OUTO and
CROW. Total balls out angry Japanese HC with a hint of metal thrown in. Extra
points for the Bron Records logo, you sly dogs. (ML)

(no address, JAPAN)

ROOVEL OOBIK - EP

The B-side, “Ou tta Myself’, is a great garage song along thel ines of LIME
SPIDERS or DEAD ALLISON. But the accent is the thick cutting guitar on the
track that harkens to the days of CHROME. The A-side ain’t worth the effort
but the B-side is worth the search. (AS)

(Stupido Twins Records, Finland)

RUSTY NUTSY - cassette

Metal influenced HC, (Or mabe vice vesra. HC ifluenced metal) hailing I
from France. Personally I thought this was rather dull, but if you like metal (not
sppedcore), then this is for you. At the very least, there aren’t too many wanking
guitar solos.(LD)

(Rusty Nutsy, c/o Bertrand Thomas, 4 Rue La Bruyere, 71100 Chalon Sur
Saone, FRANCE)

SCHLIESSMUSKEL - “Weniger Fett, Mehr Muskeln” LP

Twelve more inches by this fun punk outfit, but you have to be really good
in your German classes to catch their sense of humor. Musically this is fast,
uplifting punk rock with lots of melody somewhere between catchy and silly, but
you might find yourself trying to singalong even though you don’t know the
language. (WW)

(We Bite Records, Gonninger StraBe 3, 7417 Pfullingen, W. GERMANY)

SEVEN SIOUX - LP

Amazing songs here. Great, memorable songs with lots of hooks. The dual
vocals work really well. Kinda like a more straightforward version of DAN.
Touching lyrics, both political and personal. Why is it that an Austrian band
writes better English lyrics than most U.S. bands? I think I’ll be humming

“Story” all day. (LH) w A ^

(X-Mist Records, Buler Str. 5 7277, Wildberg 1, W. GERMANY)

SHOCKING TRUTH - “Aquaintance” EP

Melodic, driving hardcore on one side is matched by a ska-based tune that
launches into a controlled yet powerful hardcore sound that’sigol.ai mix of E^t
and West coast influences. Good lyrics from Ron (ex- FINAL CONFLICI). (IY)
(Workshed Records)

SHOCKWAVE - cassette

These guys live in the same town I do, so I suppose I should say something
nice about them. Uhhhh gee, well, errr, ahhh...Fucking lame lyricsabout rape
necrophilia, blood and rape. Some not so pointless ones about war and c ^‘ ld
abuserSwamp/MISFITS rock with never-ending guitar solos. Sorry, 1 tried.

(Shockwave, PO Box 5301, Sarasota, FI- 342T7)

SIMPLETONES - “Kristy Q/Dead Meat”

Early SoCal garage pop punk. This record has been on many want lists
forever (my guess is it was just a test pressing that never came out). Not as rockin
as “California/I Like Drugs,” but it’s primitive and fun. 1978. (TY)

(Poshboy)

Another must-have single from this Eugene group. The A-side is a fine
ditty. The flip is an upbeat groove song. Getting better with time. (AS)

(PO Box 3766, Eugene, OR 97403)

SOFA HEAD - “Invitation To Dinner” EP

A lot of ground is covered with these four songs. Catchy and memorable
punk with jobs of hardcore energy. Great vocal harmonies and tight musician-
ship. Intelligent and pointed lyrics emphasize this band’s commitment to
freedom and equality. Could have been a cliche. But SOFA HEAD does it with
personality and sincerity. (LH)

(Recerdrom, Ruhrallee 1, D-5804 Herdecke, W. GERMANY)

[ SOLUCION MORTAL - cassette

Yikes!!! I totally screwed up on this, and lost all the info that came with
the tape. So if Boonz from Mex. sees this please send the address in! Anyway this
is killer Mexican punk/ HC, & la D.O.A. Sung in Spanish, with so-so production,
this is definitely worth p icking up. Boonz, write! (LD)

[sOZIEDA^LKOHOLIK^^Intoxikazion Etilika” cassette

Some fast heavy metal punk. Deep scratchy vocals. Not much else I can
I S8Y CCA.)

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SPIDERBABY - “Turn on Me/Lookin’ Up Your Dress”

The A-side, despite its guitar punch, falls into a post-punky groove that
degenerates into a weird echo effects on the flip. Below average. (SS)
(Sympathy, 4901 Virginia Ave., Long Beach, CA 90805)

SPLIT LIP - cassette

Thoughtful lyrics about animal rights, alienation and so on, musically
could be good, but the poor production ruins it all, just scrap up the sludge and
you’ll find some potentials. (EC)

(Split Lip, 3022 Crimson St., W. Carmel, IN 46032)

SHITTER LIMITED - “In the Name of the Law” EP

An emotive tune plus three super-tight thrashers that rock one’s socks.
But don’t dismiss this as mere thrash — found here is melody and feeling |
throughout. (KG)

(Boring Records, Box 545, 40101 JKL, FINLAND)

STAND UP/ON LIFE - split EP

STAND UP offers an interesting amalgamation of styles here that lend a
fasti-paced, positive-attitude approach. Bits of chunkiness, some wafting vocals,
even a mini drum solo. Cool lyrics on “Genericide” about searching for musical
creativity instead of “copying your heroes.” ON LIFE is more straight ahead,
Chunky SE. Three songs each. (KG)

kCI Productions c/o Jeremy Weiss, 154 Wilson Dr., Lancaster, PA 17603)

STARK RAVING MAD -10”

Studio and live tracks from ’85 and ’86. You know how DAVID BOWIE
has been re-releasing his old classics on CD? Do you get the analogy? Is this good,
bad or just nostalgic? Raging hardcore that puts most of the current batch to
shame. (LH)

(Nuclear Blast Records, Dr. Frey Str. 54 7322, Donzdorf, W. GERMANY)

STATEMENT - “Prepare For Battle” EP

I hate to say it, but this is one of the bands I really wanted to dislike. But
STATEMENT kick with four songs best compared to AMEBIX. Most songs deal
with animal rights issues (in one form or another) except one bone-headed song
about drugs (anti, that is). Nice packaging although I’m not sure how serious
they are. I get the feeling they may be mixing up militant and militaristic. Do they
really stand behind the “Hardline” way of life? Good, but disturbing. (LH)
(Hardline Records, PO Box 490, Laguna Beach, CA 92652)

STICKS AND STONES - “Storm Coming” EP

Pretty straightforward melodic punk much like the DOUGHBOYS. The I
music sticks to a mid-tempo beat and is filled with catchy pop energy that works I
well with the vocals. It has keyboards but you can only hear them on one part of I
one song, which is a relief. (MS)

(Skene Records, PO Box 4522, St. Paul, MN 55104)

| THOUGHT POLICE/SINCE THE OPERATION - split EP

A bold release. THOUGHT POLICE is a 2-person band that plays
I simple, clean hardcore without any bass. SINCE THE OPERATION (my faye)
are a 3-piece that plays hardcore with a rough edge and supplies the listener with
four songs, two of which are instrumentals. Both band’s lyrics are great. (MS)
(Eat Your Idons, Lancaster Music Co-op, 1 Lodge St Lancaster, Iain 8 Cintra
Ave, Ashton Preston, PR2 2HR UK)

STILL LIFE - cassette

Bands like this frustrate the hell out me - they live in these weird little
places, and it’s obvious they put a lot of work into their cassettes. Anyway it just
bugs me when I can’t rant and rave about them. So to the review... Vocals remind
me of a cross between early D.R.I and Ralph-era CAPITOL PUNISHMENT.
Lyrics are well thought out and like I said a lot of work went into this, I wish it
had some more bite to it. (LD)

(Still Life do Jeff, 805 Lampost Ct SE, Albuquerque, NM 87123)

STP - “Smoke Em’”EP

Apparently a well-connected band (production by Kim Gordon and Don I
Flemming) this NY all-female band regurgitates the current Am. RepJSubPop
formula with surprising success. Using simple grunge riffs, gruff vocals as well
as a amateurish, almost absurd sense of male ‘pigfuck’ posturing, this record
comes off. Oh... did I say if ya like Mudhoney and L7, you’ll dig this too? (HD)
(Circuit, PO Box 67, Merrick NY, 11566)

SWIZ - “Hell Yes I Cheated” LP

For some reason, it seems likeS WIZ hasn’t gotten a fair shake, and I don’t I
know why this is. They have a powerful cohesive sound, revealing loads of I
influences with a punk backbone (they do a DAMNED cover). A tad more d aring |
then the first album, while emphasizing the “heavy” side more. Great. (WG)
(Sammich, PO Box 37292,Washington, DC 20007)

TAR - “Roundhouse” LP

No denying they continue the Chicago tradition of quality powerful j
music. A more cleaned up sound prevails on this release with no loss of guitar
wallop or driving rhythm. The CD contains last year’s “Handsome” EP to
convert even the most ignorant. Recommended. (AS)

(Amphetamine Reptile, 2541 Nicollet Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55404)

TAVEET KADET “Live 1982” EP

Too bad they didn’t get into theU.S. to tour, though I imagine they’d have
been hard pressed to match their early intensity as captured here. While the
sound quality is just decent, the fun and energy are what makes this (and all the
early bands) truly fun. (TY)

(Mad Rat, Box 98,26101 Rauma, FINLAND)

10:07 - “Spackle and Crout” 45

Despite the band’s enigmatic name, this is familiar, strictly average mid-
speed punk with melodic sung vocals. Irritatingly chorused guitars ruined some

of the effect for me. (SS) no _. _

(Excursion Records, PO Box 3103, Bellingham, WA 9E

TREEPEOPLE - “Time Whore” 12”

Non SUB POP Seattle rock. Good melodic forceful stuff of an earnest
nature. Shades of (amazingly enough) JAWBREAKER and HUSKER DU if
they had more of a produced 90’s feel. (HD).

(Silence, 1206 E. Pike, Suite 671, Seattle, Wa 981221

I TRUDGE -EP

The cover is punk as fuck. But most of the music is hokey folk and rock.
I At best it’s like the VELVET’S. But that’s a fleeting moment. And the lyrics...
“Sounds from the sea calling out to me. I try to understand but I only dream.”
Uh, yeah. Thinking back, there is a certain charm to this, and when I accidentally
I played it at 45 it sounded really good. (LH)

(Moe Town, Muggenhoferstr. 39, 8500 Nurnberg, W. GERMANY)

I TWO FACED JUDY - EP

A range of influences and sounds on this 4-song EP from garage/punk to
I tongue-in-cheek surf-rock. “Bowling On Neptune” has a spaced-out feel akin to
CAMPER VAN BETHOVEN. Not bad and by the end this group grows on you.
(AS)

(Meddling Kids Records, 4021 N. Richmond St., Arlington, VA 22207)

| UPSET NOISE - “Growing Pains” 12”

This EP from UPSET NOISE features Finely recorded, repetitious cross-
I over HC with occasional lead guitar wanking. Certainly powerful, though even
this genre requires more distinctive songwriting. (SS)

I (TVOR, Casella Postale 804, Como 5,22100 Como, ITALY)

| VAMPIRE LOVERS - “Weird Wastelands” EP

Mutant metal with dirgy vocals and sing-a-long lyrics. The overall sound I
is murky and dark but powerful enough to keep some interest Aussie fans give |
a listen. (AS)

(Hercuba, PO Box 1022, Davis, CA 95617)

I VEGAN REICH - EP

Okay, musically this is a pretty damn good record, however lyrically they
I leave a lot to be desired. Something is wrong here. I don’t see how veganism as
fascism is a solution to anything. The basic sentiments aired here are under¬
standable, very critical and even applaud able, but I fail to see how the execution
of people who don’t strictly follow the VEGAN REICH moral and ethical
“hardline” is going to solve too much, let alone create a basis for future
generations. We have problems, but adding to them doesn’t help too much. (JY)
(Hardline Records, PO Box 490, Laguna Beach, CA 92652)

TETRUS -”A Change In Mentality” cassette

With this band name, I was expecting cheeze-ball metal, boy was I
suDrised. This is slow- to medium-paced music that, for a lack of a better
description, reminds me of a cross between slower SQUIRREL BAIT meets
DOCTOR’S MOB (at which point they decide to move to DC.) I kind of like this
a lot — it’s a tad slow in parts, but it has really good lyrics that keep it moving I

($8 ppd., Tetrus do Sean Kirby, 5682 Inglis St., Halifax, N-S. B3H 1K3,
CANADA)

THESE BORWICKS - cassette

Rockish punk much like fellow Germans JINGO DE LUNCH or maybe
latter period BAD BRAINS. Not very interesting. (CS)

(Snoop Records, Am Geierberg 17,3153 Lahstedt 1, W. GERMANY)

VELCO OVERDOSE - “Flesh Ripping Sonic Polka” EP

Fast, straightforward ’84-style HC, reminds me a bit of that first
NEGATIVE APPROACH record... but heard it all before. (WW)

(Relapse Records, PO Box 440324, Aurora, CO 80044)

VERBAL ASSAULT - “Your Choice Live Series” LP

VERBAL ASSAULT is one of the few “hardcore” (whatever that means)
bands that get me genuinely excited these days, and this 10-song live album
reminded me that. “Trial” and “On” have got to be two of the most essential
records, from the excellent musicianship to the right-on lyrics. This release
documents that material in a live setting with good production so this, like
others, is mandatory. )WG)

(Y.C. Live Series, Tobby Holzinger, Mittegasse 7,6501 Nieder-Olm, W. GER¬
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VERTIGO - LP

VERTIGO has more of a reliance on power chord riffing and conven¬
tional medodic lines than most other AMPH/REP bands. They also display a real
good sense of late 60' sludge psych/hard rock. Thus they rate less on the ever
important thud/pound scale. I find their sense of melody and history refreshing
but at the same time I get the feeling that they could’ve spent more time on the
songwriting. A sorta near miss for me...(HD).

(Amphetamine Reptile, 2541 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, 55404)

^ALT MINK/GNEISSMAKER - split EP

WALT MINK gives us two good songs that place them somewhere I
between KINGFACE, TED NUGENT and SHUDDER TO THINK.
jNEISSMAKER does a metally gutteral thing that ain’t bad. (WG)

|(Skene, PO Box 4522, St. Paul, MN 55104)

THE WASP FACTORY - “Pretty Quickly...Ugly Slowly’’ LP

In some ways this LP reminds me of early (creative) BUTTHOLEl
SURFERS and in other ways of the more experimental fringe bands of the I
CRASS label, stuff like KUKL (minus the vocal approach) and D&V. The music I
is awkward but manages to flow nontheless, with a vocal style that leans toward I
spoken word affairs over the musical montage. I like this record a lot, if only I
because the band put some thought into their music and tried to be a little |
different Look forward to more from ‘em. (JY)

(Midnight Music, PO Box 333, Bushey, Watford WD2 3UN, ENGLAND)

WD-40 - cassette

This hardcore band gets back to basics and the results are great. An early
'80s feel to this rough, angry tape. Akin to early CAPITOL PUNISHMENT.
Simple and to the point. (CS)

($3 to PO BOX 4154, Areata, CA 95521)

WHIPPED - ’’Sunny Side Up" cassette

Coming out of Seattle, this is fairly straightforward style hardcore (a lot
like early SEVEN SECONDS). Its winning aspect though is the vocals, which are
fast, raw and, surprise surprise, shared equally between a female and male
singer. Inspiring and well done in the process. (MH)

($3, Paula Sen, PO Box 20236, Seattle, WA 98102)

WHORL - “Mind Revolution/Stupid Shit”

These guys used to be called BIG JESUS TRASH CAN, but that is where
any comparison to the BIRTHDAY PARTY ends. This is more of a trippy art ]
punk (I’m always a bit nervous when a record says “play at any speed”) thing.
Still, I generally applaud anyone who tries to do anything different in this day
and age and this is worth a listen at least. (ML)

(Slumberland, Box 2741, College Park, MD 20740)

V/A - “Art Of Kill” cassette

Totally tuneless noise/grind, 120 songs of pain. Includes GRUNGE,
ULCER, SHAMELESS NOISE. This could be a perfect soundtrack for a
lobotomy surgery without anaesthetic. (EC) .

($3 ppd to Master Beats do Mark, Flat 2,2 Claremont Rd, Liverpool L15 3HH,

ENGLAND)

V/A - “As the Scene Turns” cassette

This is a cool little comp that features DISSENT, JAWBOX, BROKEN
TRUST, etc. Pretty cool with some great quick tunes; also has Speedracer
soundtrack. This is OK. (HC)

($4 ppd from Candlewyck #704, Kalamazoo, MI 49001)

V/A - “City of L.A. Power” LP

Ooo... a new Flipside comp.! This one exposes Los Angeles punk in 1990
with 10 of the city’s best. Includes previously unreleased cuts by BAD RELI¬
GION, CREAMERS, PAPER TULIPS, SANDY DUNCAN’S EYE, L7 plus five
others. And hey, it’s a beautiful-colored picture disc, too. I dig. (KG)

(Flipside Records, PO Box 363, Whittier, CA 90608)

V/A-“Gift of Life” EP

A compilation of previously released tracks both old and new with The
BADTOWN BOYS, CHANNEL 3, ELECTRIC BLUE PEGGY SUE, L & THE
REVOLUTIONARIES FROM MARS and STICKY FILTH. The BADTOWN
BOYS do an OK job of combining DION and the RAMONES. The CHANNEL
3 cut is good solid HC but it’s from their 1982 LP. We get OK garage punk from
EBPS and RFM and finally a real great tune from New Zealand’s STICKY
FILTH, who serve up a real powerful, classic-sounding UK sounding (k la
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(Gift of Life, Turmstr. 45, 4300 Essen 1, W. GERMANY)
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I don’t fuckin’ believe it! Someone did an A.C. and PATARENI split live
I bootleg! Vacuum cleaner-inspired noise by a couple of the genre’s finest. Only
1300 copies. I dare you to try finding this one. (CD)

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V/A - “If It’s Too Loud... You’re an Asshole” EP

Features GUTWRENCH (doin’ a hot cover of the ZERO BOYS’ “Civi¬
lizations Dying”), EARTH PIGS (groovy early punk sound), NEW ROSE and
SANITY ASSASSINS (these two doin’ kinda slower sing-y songs). Side A cooks.
(KG)

(Tragic Life, PO Box 060623, Staten Island, NY 10306)
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| V/A - “Noise from Nowhere Vol. 5” EP

A side a piece from GOD’S ACRE and GREEN MAGNET SCHOOL.
| The former is a slick version of Chicago-style rock with an interesting cover of
“Funhouse” plus sax. The latter is a cool song with percussion and bass
I standouts. (AS)

I (Toxic Shock, PO Box 43787, Tucson, AZ 85733)

V/A - “Punk On The Road” LP

I really hate these “K-Tel, Punk Hits of the ’80s” compilations. The only
purpose of this re-hash is to make money exploiting all us fans (sheep). It makes
me hate myself for being a sucker for live tunes by the BUSINESS, the
PARTISANS, and the RUTS... (LH)

(Link Records)

V/A - Sold Out - flexi

A split flexi with I, a kinda BAD BRAINS sounding band out of Canada,
and a track by Detroit’s PITTBULL who have a double-bass drum crossover
sound. Comes with the final issue of... (TY)

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exposure to consumers, worker and com¬
munity risks at irradiation processing
plants and even the nutritional and taste
quality of irradiated food. DOE did little
to allay these concerns by picking NuKem
as its prime contractor for a "model" plant.
NuKem is a US subsidiary of a German
company embroiled in fraud, bribery and
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handling scandals in Europe. In February,
new criminal indictments were issued
against 7 German NuKem executives for
fraud. DOE has also been using Malcolm
Wells of NJ as a consultant on the en¬
deavor. Wells was found guilty last year of
criminal waste violations in NJ. What a
program!

The strategy on this issue involves a)
blocking irradiation plant construction,
b) getting state and local governments to
ban sales, c) getting major food com¬
panies to reject their purchase and food
chains to reject distribution and d) cut off
stalling expensive pollution control equip- government subsidies. All phases of this

ment. There’s a simpler "toxics reduction’
approach. Many paper products don’t
need to be bleached at all and second,
paper companies can substitute peroxide
bleach for chlorine, as is common practice
in Europe, and almost completely
eliminate the problem. •
by Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes August, 1990
P.O. Box 920 Arlington, VA 22216 (703)276-7070

plan are showing outstanding success. For
more information, contact the Nat’l
Coalition to Stop Food Irradiation, Box
59-0488, San Francisco, CA 94159. •
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several times -1 always
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great Philip K. Dick, it features Harrison Ford and Daryll Hannah,
among other soon-to-be-big-names.

the plot of this frightening cyberpunk saga revolves around the
exploits of Deckard (Ford), who is a reluctant "blade runner" in a future
Los Angeles. That means he's a sort of official hitman hired by the cops
to decommission renegade cyborgs. (For those of you not up on
artificial life terminology, a cyborg is a combination of living, material
and computer circuitry - a "human" body with a computer-chip brain
and, perhaps, some "superhuman" physical abilities.)

As the film begins, Deckard has been hired to eliminate a group
of cyborgs who have escaped to Earth from a colony on another pTanet,
where they were used as slaves. As cyborgs are programmed to have
a limited life span, they want to find the company that made them and
somehow get their lives extended. Failing that, they feel that revenge
is called for - and since they are both smart and strong, they are a
danger. The problem for Deckard is that he's beginning to think that
"decommissioning" is just another word for murder. In fact, he soon
gets romantically involved with a cyborg woman (Hannah).

The plot is intricate, suspenseful and even romantic. Thanks to
the tough-guy narration that accompanies the action on-screen, i
sometimes seems like a Dashiell Hammett-type hardboiled detectiv<
movie that's merely been placed into a science-fiction setting.

The set design is just incredible: a visual depiction of a mega
lopolis that's half supermodern, half sleazy street scene. Technology
is in charge, hut it's broken down half the time, with predictablel
results. Smoky street stalls may sell ramen noodles or recombinani
DNA. Punks roam the street, alongside Asians, Hispanics, stree!
urchins and unidentifiable subcultures of the future. If you have read
Gibson, Shirley, Sterling etc,, it's a landscape that will be familiar to
you. Ditto if you've seen GRAZIL or MAX EIEADRCCM
(both of which stole ideas liberally from BLADE RUNNER).

See It, or see it again. It's on Embassy Home Entertainment, and
at almost any video store. And it's one hell of a great movie.

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darn near every other category of exploitation covered. We're talking
black biker chicks on choppers vs. honkie cops and an evil Colonel
Sanders clone. We're talking lack of plot galore.

And did I mention the costumes? Truly unbelievable! If you're
old enough to remember LaBelle (that's Patti LaBelle and Nona!
Hendiyx's old band, to you young 'uns), that should give you some!
idea ofwhat they look like. Sort of a combination of '70s black hip styes!
- bright colors, big bell bottoms, outrageous hats - with space-opera!
style a la Funkadelic. Really great stuff:

There's also a cameo appearance by The Stylistics, for nc
apparent reason. But hey. why not?

Bad acting, Keystone KkKops antics, bizarre slapstick routines!

gratuitous black power slo^aneenng, ajajee between a chopper and a|

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I party your friends will never fnrgive -1 mean forget.

I was laughing so hard when I saw itthat I didn't get the necessary
info on the video company, but I do know that it was also re-released
under the title "Get Down and Boogie." It's so obscure that even the
various trash/cult video books have overjooked it. But you shouldn't.
Wei 11 stil I don't have a real address in Portland, the City of Roses,

I Bridges and Junkies, but you can get your home movies, review
suggestions and hate mail 10 me c/o mRR.

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number 2 fish is Mayan

* -v*w — - • space Brother gateway
into 2001 ending as the opening. (He did all thatanimation himself??)
Re-enter to harsh desert reality of Mexican funeral. Miguel's brother
is dead, his mother is insane from grief. Every cent spent on candles,
but by day their home shack Iooks all the worse. Miguel doesn't
believe in God, but the old crucifix craftsman knows better. He puts
faith, devotion, and the by-product of self-inflicted stigmata into every
fetish he constructs. "You must have faith, even in an object." He's
Jadorowski gone senile.

Miguel tries to escape, to search out his way el nortc. I

But Hollywood is a terrible place. The kitty's friend is dead,

_;y rusty shopping cart Life sucks! He's dead. This alley smella

f human piss ana shit. That's it. Under a truck! Now!

Fuck! Truck stopped. Gotta find another way to go
Just what do these bored house bound wives do In the 'better'
areas of greater LaLa? Out of spite and desperation they'll coax the
mailman into cunnilingus. Break the damn vase! She's sick of it. But
the anonymous gift is forsaken. Found, stolen, lost, unappreciated, all
to a localized soundtrack of Kronos on Quaaludes.

Miguel dreams of seven foot Death come to get him. In another
life, another way, he could have been asshole buddy with any of the
ther boys on the relentless train.

Kitty keeps trying to kill herself. Goddamn nine fucking lives!

The vase moves from one undeserving mayonnaise scented
Ishithead to another.

But the Mayan toxic fish draws them all for one final cellular
Irevelation.

And it looks like a 'real' movie. With editing and FX and sound

and focus (any type of focus you like.) Done in three and a half years
started in school and finished guerrilla, just like "Eraserhead."

AllofthiscanbeYOURStor$10.00postpaid. Ishityounot. 3C
of true greatness for a sawbuck. Sena your money and life
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Reviewers: Devon Morf (DM), Lali Donovan (LD)

BAD RELIGION - “Along the Way”

What can I say? The quality of this product is overwhelming.
Sound, footage, editing — all top notch. It’s amazing that the produc¬
ers of this can manage to take footage from over 14 shows and edit them
them together without noticeable loss of synchronicity in the songs.
This ones got all your faves, as during your 90 minute trip you’ll thrill
to the sights and sounds of over 25 songs taken from all walks of the
band’s discography. Short “getting to know the band” type interviews
also prove fun. Essential. (DM)

(Tribal Video/Thorsten Bach, Kunigundastr. 27, 4300 Essen 1, W.
GERMANY)

V/A-’Tribal Area No.4”

This video “fanzine” hailing from Germany consists of 130
minutes of live shows, interviews, and a few songs of Mtv schlock-
fare.There’s some pretty cool live stuff on here; LEMONHEADS,
BULLET LA VOLTA, BAD RELIGION, FLUID, SOUL SIDE, and a
friggin’ amazingNOMEANSNO doing “Small Parts...” (Even if Devon
did think it was boring...) 16 bands in all, some of which really are quite
good, some of which ain’t so spunky. The highlight is definitely the
quasi-porno chicken strip tease. (Maybe vou had tosee it? Hmmmmm...)
Other bands include; VICTIMS FAMILY, INSTIGATORS, IM PULSE
MANSLAUGHTER, and some rather forgettable others. (LD)
(Tribal Video/Thorsten Bach, Kunigundastr. 27, 4300 Essen 1, W.
GERMANY)

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nutritious meals to San Franciscos
homeless, Food Not Bombs volunteers were
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Reviews by (MS) Martin Sprouse, (JC) Jennifer Cobb
(DD) Donna Dresch, (DE) Deb E., (LH) Lance Hahn, (JY) John Yates

When you send in a zine for review
include a complete address and a postpaid
price. You will receive a trade copy of
MRR if your zine is reviewed.

HOMESLICE #1 / $2 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 22 pgs.

Simple, short interviews with Supertouch, Bad Trip,
Edgewise and American Standard, plus reviews and

S hotos. Layouts are a little plain looking (except for
le grafitti lettering) but can develop with time. (MS)
37 D Brookside Dr. / Lansdale, PA 19446

PUNKPALS #8 / 500 (in stamps)

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 18 pgs.

Another listing of people looking for pen pals. Each
listings includes everything from favorite music to
basic likes and dislikes. Communication and nothing
less. (MS)

Robert B. / 2331 Blake St. #204 / Berkeley, CA
94704

THE SECRETS OF LIFE AND DEATH #18 /

250 ppd.

small - copied - 12 pgs.

A pocket sized zine that’s made up of photo collages,
cut up pieces of text and a little bit of weirdness.

5205 W. Caribbean / Glendale, AZ 85306

CYGNET COMMITTEE #1 / 500 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - cppied - 24 pgs.

The editor mentions inside that this issue has been in
the works for 3 1/2 years and the results include
mostly political editorials, information and comics
regarding human and animal liberation. The second
issue should be out by the end of 1993. (MS)

PO Box 366 / Tuson, AZ 85702-0366

MMMWAHAHAHAHAH! #5/$lppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 16 pgs.

A good zine from the D.C. area that has interviews
with Killdozer, Jawbox and Das Damen, plus
reviews, animal liberation info, a USSR scene report
and a good article about rape, date and otherwise.
(MS)

4410 Mass. Ave. NW S-191 / Washington, DC
20016

SPUN #57 / $ 1 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 20pgs.

Good graphics, cool hand lettering, pretty interesting
content and very diverse musical coverage. (MS)
Doug Chapel Comics / 38 Reservoir St. / Holden,
MA01520

TRASH PICKINS #1 / 250 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 8 pages.

This issue is dedicated to last year’s police riot in
Virginia Beach and covers the spectacle through
newspaper clippings and photos. The opening
editorial takes a simple but strong stance on the need
to physically confront the powers that be. (MS)
Crypto Press / PO Box 9152 / Va. Bch., VA 23450

EXTRA TOILET PAPER 750 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 16 pgs.

An ugly zine that’s sincere and kinda funny. This
issue nas reviews, info, comics and some graffiti
from desks of the University of Virginia. (MS)

Jai Smith / 3400 North St. / Ettrick, VA 23803

SMASHIN’ THROUGH #5 / $1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 24 pgs.

Another cool grassroots hardcore zine that takes a
stand against big independent NYHC bands. This
issue has long interviews with Citizens Arrest, Bad
Religion, Seizure, Casualties and more. Good. (MS)
PO Box 1014 / Yonkers, NY 10704

X-Y-ZINE #2/$2 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - pgs.

An impressive second issue that has interviews with
MDC, NOFX, GO!, Chemical People, Demise, The
Earls and a great one with Social Distortion. Also
included are tons of reviews, photos and editorials. A
lot to read. (MS)

711 Menomonee Ave. / So. Milw., WI53172

PATCHWORK #1 / $1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 26 pgs.

Interviews with Profound, New Age Records, Vision,
Implement and Verbal Assault plus reviews and
photos. The surprising part here are the political
editorials which are a pleasure to read in what could
be called “just another hardcore zine.” (MS)

4323 Normal Ave. #15 / Los Angeles, CA 90029

CARTER #3 /$1 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 32 pgs.

A cool zine that mixes humor, music coverage and
good graphics. This issue has interviews with
Straight Youth (pretty funny), Slap of Reality and a
real punk rocker, plus some assorted reviews. (MS)
1239 NW 22 Ave. / Miami, FL 33125

BLOWIN CHUNX #1 / $1 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 24 pgs.

Interviews with Coffin BreaK, Jerry’s Kids and Colon
On The Cob, plus photos and some humor but most
space is given to the bands. Simple but focused first
issue. (MS)

Alyssa Cringe / 75 Stanton Rd. / Brookline, MA

INFLUENCE #6/$1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 20 pgs.

Interviews with No For An Answer, Haywire, The
Believers, Chain of Strength and G-Whiz, all of
which are pretty superficial (stick to general
information). Also included are some reviews, photos
and info on animal rights. It’s good that vet another
woman is doing a hardcore zine so hopefully in
future issues bands will be confronted with a diffrent
perspective. (MS)

664 12th St. #207 / San Pedro, CA 90731

SUBURBAN VOICE #29 / $3.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - newsprint - 32 pgs.

Interviews with Fugazi, Diajits, Fluid, Hard-Ons,
Killing Time, Sheer Terror and Soundgarden. All of
the interviews are pretty short but offer some type of
insight to each band’s thinking. As with past issue,
this one is also packed with reviews, photos, news
and comes with a free 7"EP (Sheer Terror/
Crawlpappy - see review). (MS)

PO Box 1605 / Lynn, MA 01903

FLEX #2/$3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - offset - 60 pgs. - German.

Another European zine that’s filled with info,
articles, photos and news. This issue has interviews
with No Means No, Cowboy Killers, Assassins of
God, Inferno, Nausea and more. Thick and filled
with stuff. (MS)

Tiberiju / Schelleing. 39-24 / 1040 Wien / Austria

NO TREND PRESS #5/$2.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - offset - 76 pgs. - German.

Interviews with Killdozer, Nirvana, Laughing
Hyenas, Galaxie 500 plus a bunch of other bands.
Although the majority of the bands are somewhat
unk, the rest of the content is centered on metal
ands with pointy gothic logos... yawn! (MS)
Lenaustr. 1 / 6906 Leimen 3 / West Germany

ARM THE SPIRIT #2 / 500 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 4 pages
This is a news letter that bills itself as being
dedicated to revolutionary resistance. This issue has a
good time table of events regarding the Mohawk
struggle in Quebec. Informative. (MS)

Box 475 / 2 j 3 College St. / Toronto / Ontario / M5T
1R5 Canada

ANARCHY #25/$2.50 ppd.
newspaper - 44 pgs.

This issue is dedicated to the events in Eastern
Europe via articles, editorials and news also included
are several pages of reviews, contacts, critical
thinking articles, letters, photos and graphics. A good
source of information ana thought. (MS)

C.A.L. / PO Box 1446 / Columbia, MO 65205-1446

MACHETE #1 / 650ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 26 pgs.

This first issues mainly covers political issues such as
draft resistence, animal rights, poverty, flag burning
and a Situationist reprint that mentions those ever so
popular words “commodity” and “spectacle.”

Overall, good effort and I’m looking forward to
future issues. (MS)

2977 Glenn Ave. / Los Angeles, CA 90023

TURNING THE TIDE #5 / 500 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 10 pgs.

A good source of information and news about anti¬
racist actions. A long list of contact addresses plus
coverage from all parts of the country. This should be
monthly! (MS)

PO Box 1990 / Burbank, CA 91507

NOISY CONCEPT #6 / 250 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 4 pgs.

Short dose of music reviews and political humor as
well as a couple classifieds. Enjoyable. (MS)

621 Bassett Rd. / Bay Village, OH 44140

EAT SHIT #4/$2 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - offset - 28 pgs.

A good political and music zine from Bristol that has
in-depth interviews with Chumbawamba, Political
Asylum, Oi Polloi plus a couple of good articles and
a lot of emphasis on class struggle anarchism. (MS)
Dave / Box 8/82 Colston St. / Bristol / UK

COTTONMOUTH #1 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 20 pgs.

Interviews with Vick from Inside Out (now in
Shelter) and Ray from Shelter. The interviews give
some insight into Krsna but do not question it in the
least bit... weak! The editor surprised me with his
anti-homophobia statements but bored me by giving
more attention to cow liberation than human
liberation (not living for a God or Goddess). (MS)

11 Dunham Ave. / Crawford, NJ 07016

ROTTEN FRUIT #1 / $1.50 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 32 pgs.

Interviews with Domestic Crisis, Unauthorized,
Woodenhorse and Dreadnot, plus a ton of skate
photos and some info about the corruption brought to
you by McDonald’s. (MS)

1058 Beddingfield PI. / Westerville, OH 43081

LA VANDERIA KAOS #9 / $3 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - offset - 48 pgs. - Spanish
This zine is packed with information and opinions
about the Spanish and European punk scenes and
anarchist communities. Lots to read, learn and look
at! (MS)

Aptdo 207 / 13300 Valdepenas (Ciudad Real) / Spain

SWEETROLL INTERNATIONAL no price listed
8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 88 pgs.

An impressive art zine that is made up of some
writing, a lot collages and mail art type of stuff.

Most of the stuff is good looking ana either has a
strong graphic edge or political edge. My only
complaint is that the cover is ugly as fuck ana does
no justice for what’s inside.There was no price listed
with the zine so I suggest you write for more info.
(MS)

2541 Nicollet Ave. S. / Mpls., MN 55404

T.F.Y. #13/$2 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 24 pgs.

A great new issue of this Scottish fanzine which
combines music, thought, critisms and politics into a
nice looking and far from boring presentation. This
issue has interviews with Terminus, Filler, Robb
Johnson and some good looking guy named Martin
Sprouse. Each copy comes with a free postcard. (MS)
Paul Rutherford / AK Distribution / 3 Balmoral Place
/ Stirling / FK8 2RD / Scotland

JUST LIES #17/8/350 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 8 pgs.

A short zine with a lot of text including a chat with
Crash Dummy, some reviews and silly humor. (MS)
253-25 86 Ave. / Bellerose, NY 11426

GROT #6/$1.50 ppd.

7 x 8 1/2 - offset -16 pgs.

A good selection of diverse punk bands are
interviewed in this issue that includes Warlock
Pinchers, Pink Lincolns, Rise and Rise above. This
zine also has a good share of reviews, photos and
opinions. Just the right amount of content. (MS)

151 First Ave. Box A / New Yoric, NY 10003

HAIRBALL#1/$1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 28 pgs.

A good, well-organized, easy to read first issue.
Interviews with Refuse, 10:07 and a long talk with
Ian from Fugazi. A lot of space is given to reviews
and cover reductions as well as photos. The graphics
could get better (halftones, etc.) with time because
the basic motivation and content are there. (MS)

PO Box 1405 / Bellevue, WA 98009

TOO HECTIC #2 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2x11- copied - 18 pgs.

Interviews with Resist, Emotive Drive and Arrogant
Response plus a couple pages of record reviews and
some info about hunting. Nothing that interesting but
nothing bad or useless either. (MS)

Bob / 111 Botany St. / Garfield, NJ 07026

BACTERIA OF DECAY #4/ 500 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 12 pgs.

Interviews with Crankshaft and Functional Idiots
plus reviews (shows and records), a short rant
(against organized religion) and a story about going
to DC. Average but is developing a personality. (MS)
63 Lennox Ave. / Buffalo, NY 14226

THE AXE #1/500 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 12 pgs.

This issue mainly covers poEtical topics (vivisection,
veganism, etc.) plus some strong, healthy support of
women’s empowerment. The articles are a bit
dogmatic but given that this is the first issue it’s very
understandable. (MS)

Star Route A / Box 2525 / Solon Springs, WI54873

FOE #12/SI ppd. (comes with free back issue)

8 1/2 x 11 - newsprint - 16 pgs.

For some reason I haven’t seen a copy of this zine for
a long time but it’s good to have it back. This issue
has a funny interview with the Didjits plus NY
Citizens and Bullet Lavolta, photos ana reviews.

?45 Chesnut St. #5 / Bath, PA 18014

OPTOPHOBIA #6/$1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 -offset-24 pgs.

A great looking zine that has the content to match.
Interviews with Fifteen, Hellocaust, Bloodymary and
the devious and active Marc Fisher. This issue also
has an article on Mass Media Control, some stories,
loads of reviews, photos humor and great graphics.
This one should come out more often. (MS)

W272 N2141 Fieldhack Dr. / Pewaukee, WI 53072

MY ATTITUDE #5 / $3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - offset - 40 pgs - Italian.

An all hardcore zine from Italy that has short
interviews with Up Front, Far Cry, Profound, Vision,
The 7" Boots, Gorilla Biscuits and more plus
reviews, photos, and a couple of editorials. It’s kinda
strange to read about so many U.S. bands in an zine
from overseas hence little or no local coverage. (MS)
Gianluca Tricarico / Viale Giorgione, 46 / 36100
Vicenza / Italy

OX #6/$4 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - offset - 56 pgs. - German.

Interesting looking magazine from Germany that has
a pleasant look to it ana some interviews with
Charley’s War, Murphy’s Law, D.R.I., Loveslug,
NOFX, Shudder To Think, Nausea and others. Also
features reviews and a 7" split record featuring Hell’s
Kitchen and Go Ahead. (JY)

Ox - The Zine / Joachim Hiller / Goethestr. 28 / 7920
Heidenheim / West Germany

PROFANE EXISTENCE #5/$L50ppd.

8 1/2x11- offset - 40 pgs.

Latest thrilling installment from the hippies up there
in the wilds of Minneapolis! Steadily improving, by
which I mean that each issue is an improvement on
the last. This one features interviews with Pollution
Circus, Holocaust and some band called Cringer,
plus the usual columns, articles and reviews we so
love. (JY)

PO Box 8722 / Minneapolis, MN 55408

GAINSAY #4 / $1.50ppd. - zine only / $4 ppd. -
zine and comp, tape with booklet
8 1/2x11- offset - 24 pgs.

Funny thing I should end up reviewing this — I sent
away for a copy with the tape nearly two months ago
and still haven t gotten it. Short interviews with
Naked Raygun, Poison Idea, Tad and more. A couple
of short columns too. This zine, however, isn’t short
on photos or typos. I wonder what the tape and
booklet are like. (DE)

Joel Wick / Gainsay Zine / 115 Candlewyck #704 /
Kalamazoo, MI 49001

OPEN UP #1/ $2 ppd.

6 x 8 1/4 - copied - 20 pgs. - German.

You don’t have to be able to read German to see that
this is a SE zine. Lots of Xs, fists and SE band record
reviews in this short zine. Interviews with Haywire
and Charley’s War. The only part I can read are the
lyrics to “Wolfpack” by D Y S on the back cover. It’s
not exactly ground-breaking from what I can tell.
(DE)

Michael Hollmann / Brauenkamper Str. 14 / 2870
Delmenhorst / W. Germany

GAGS & GORE #1 / no price listed
8 1/2 x12 - offset - 32 pgs. - German.

For a first effort it looks pretty clean. Interviews with
No Means No, Lemonheads, TKKG, They Might be
Giants and Boo-Ya-T.R.I.B.E. Not exactly a punk/
HC zine. Write for price. (DE)

Hanno Balz / Grohner Bergstr. 1 / 2820 Bremen 70 /
W. Germany

GENETIC DISORDER #4 / 250 stamp
5 1/2x8 1/2 - copied - 12 pgs.

A clean simple issue that has short interviews with
No Means No, The Moshed Potatoes, P.O.E. and the
Base Apes, plus some sacerated Paul Weiman stuff.

165(1* Smoketree Drive / El Centro, CA 92243

DAMN STRAIGHT #1 / 254 stamp
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 12 pgs.

How many different ways can the word “straight” fit
into a zine title... at least this title made me laugh.

This first issue is pretty thin page- and content-wise
but features short conversations with Turning Point,
Dunamis, Slapshot and more. There’s an editorial
about the growing Krsna influence in hardcore but
the author only hints that it’s bad and completely
wimps out by telling people to wait and see if the
Krsna influence will become greater and dangerous.

i^Ashford Rd. / Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

DECONTROL #10,000,000,000/254 stamp
8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 6 pgs.

A couple of reviews, a short interview with
Mercyland from Athens, GA, an anti-metal rant plus
assorted bits of info. Skimpy. (MS)

PO Box 404 / Duluth, GA 30136-0404

AMOK #9/$3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 60 pgs. - German.

It’s big, it’s clean, and it’s in German. One of those
zines that makes me feel inadequate. Anyway, lots of
features and lengthy interviews with bands like Force
Fed, Carcass and Haywire. Good layouts and lots of
pictures. Pretty cool. (LH)

Bemd Bohrmann / Heinrich-Bruning Str 15 /6700
Ludnisshalm / W. Germany

BRAINS / donations, stamps, cool stuff
8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 36 pgs.

This is fantastic! A role playing game by the punks
and for the punks. Subtitled“Hardcore Punks
Against Dead Guys,” this game is witty, full of inside
jokes and really fun. I know a lot of people that are
part of the scene who still get into these games and I
would recommend this seeing as it’s cheap, it’s punk,
and it really is a good game. I wonder if they’ll come
out with supplements or modules... Cool! (LH)

Glacier #43 ? SOSC / Ashland, OR 97520

CUT THE CHEESE #1.5 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 14 pgs.

This zine is pretty great. Really fuckin’ funny in a
sardonic sorta way. Cynical, intelligent, negative and
lots of good angst. Nice handwritten layouts too.

Write for the previous issue as well ana have a good
laugh at some 14-year-old unity skate punk’s
expense. (LH)

Chris / 2 Shoreham Bay / Npg, Mb R3R-3J6 /

Canada

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NOT FOR THE WEAK #2 / $1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 26 pgs.

Another issue so soon? Hoy, this is pretty fuckin’
cool with some of the best interviews and (believe it
or not) record reviews I’ve seen in ages. Strong
coverage of bands like Bom Against, Supertouch,
Killing Time and Gorilla Biscuits (who mostly talk
about hanging out). This stuff is pretty witty. Cool.

George Norton / 36 Newell PI. /N. Arlington, NJ
07032 6

CHAOS COMIX #4 / $1 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 20 pgs.

These comics really aren’t that funny. I don’t know.
There just sorta obnoxious. I guess some folks might
think it’s funny in a caustic way. (LH)

Randy / 821 Wollaston / Victoria, BC / V9A-5A9 /
Canada

NUEVA FUERZA #5 / $2 ppd.

7 x 10 - printed - 20 pgs. - Spanish.

I can t read this, but it seems to be a well-meaning
zine. Music and politics with bands like I.R.A. and
R.D.P.S. There’s also little bits from Profane
Existence and Endless Struggle. (LH)

Janeth Alzate / A.A. 7685 /Medellin. Ant. /
Colombia

STRAIGHT OUT #6 / 500 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 38 pgs.

Despite the name, this is not some straight edge zine.
(Well, it might be, but they don’t talk about it very
much). At any rate, it’s pretty dam nifty with
interesting interviews with Jawbreaker, Integrity and
Facecord. Most interesting are the editorials about
high school and visiting California. I don’t really get
the cover. Still... (LH)

Shayne Robb / 16339 Stuebner - Airline #205 /
Spring, TX 77379

AXE OF FREEDOM #7 / $3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 20 pgs.

This is great. Strong articles, both intelligent and
angry. Lots of talk about class struggle, sexism and
homophobia. All of this is done with a sense of
urgency that a lot of politically oriented zines lack.
Abo, detailed interviews with Sedition and the
Disturbed (R.I.P.). Real good job here. (LH)

A.O.F. / PO Box 617 / Glasgow, G12 8NG / Scotland

MY KINDA ZINE #4 / trade
8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 12 pgs.

Well, this is really nice. Short but to the point. A
quick interview with Lost, some reviews and lots of
newspaper clippings about native American land
rights (and the whole ongoing situation). There’s a
funny little story here too. (LH)

PO Box 12244 / Denver, CO 80212

CHAOTIK WORLD NEWS AND OLDS #19 /$2

I? 1/2 x 11 - copied - 22 pgs.

They’re a discordian zine now? I thought they had
something to do with the sub-genius. Well, what do I
know? This is one of those hip zines for (yeah, like
there’s a whole bunch of them) post-structuralist,
sexually deviant, pie-throwing, anarcho-bumouts.
Interesting interview with Bob Black. The kind of
zine you read while dome crack. (LH)

Pope George Ringo II / TESC Bldg. D, Room 106 /
Olympia, WA 98505

EXCURSION #2 / 500 ppd. or 2 stamps
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 - offset - 24 pgs.

A short S.E. zine with lots of hard-to-see photos. An
interview with Whipped. Little bits of inhumation
about local happenings. It might be worth two
stamps if DavePromises to staple it together. (DE)
Dave Larson / Excursion, P.O. Box 3103.

Bellingham, Wa., 98225.

FAVOURITE SONS OF AL AND GONE MAD

#2 / $1 Dpd.

6x8 1/2 - copied - 24 pgs.

This was hard to get through because the copying job
was weak, the print is miniscule and the layout has a
spin-the-zine effect. There are tons of interviews and
a couple of columns. If you can read it you’ll find a
few interesting bits in here. (DE)

Fave Sons c/o Martin Gozdz / 34 Great Ryrie St. /
Ringwood 3134 / VIC, Australia

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FACTSHEET FIVE #37/$3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 144 pgs.

Mike Gunderloy has put out another packed issue of
reviews of publications, music, videos and much
more. It’s sort of the yellow pages of the under¬
ground. (DE)

Mike Gunderloy / 6 Arizona Ave. / Rensselaer, NY
12144-4502

GOAR #2 / $3.25 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - offset - 60 pgs. - German.

This is one German zine I wish I could read. Lots of
reviews with a point system of rating that anyone can
understand. Loads of interviews including the
Nomads, Miracle Workers, Mudhoney and more.
Slick, glossy and well put together. (DE)

GOAR c/o Markus Cremer / Zum Hasenberg 25 / D -
6604 Fedringen, Germany

GOTHIC #2/$1.25 ppd.

8 1/2 x 12 - copied - 40 pgs.

Short interviews with Social Distortion, Stranger To
Stranger and Resistors plus a lot of animal rights info
and political opinions. (MS)

13 Chippewa Trail / Browns Mills, NJ 08015

CAJUN CADAUER #1/750 ppd.

4 1/4 x 5 1/2 - copied - 32 pgs.

A collection of dark graphics, opinions, words, art
and fiction all placed neatly in a little zine that comes
in a bag with fun toys. (M$)

3521 N. Kenwood / Kansas City, MO 64116

RANTEX 750 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 40 pgs.

Mostly art and text that explores dark topics mixed
with some political insight. (MS)

9502 SW 165th St. / Miami, FL 33157

SACTO PUNX $1 ppd.

4 1/4 x 5 1/2 - copied - 12 pgs.

This isn’t really a fanzine but rather a look into the
Sacramento punk scene via a membership club that
centers around a guy named Steve. You get a
membership manual, a membership card, stickers and
a stck of gum. Kinda funny and creative. (MS)

PO Box 161944 / Sacramento, CA 95816

FOAD #3/$3 ppd
8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 20 pgs. - Italian.

Italian thrash zine with Krull, Delrio, Enslaved,
Vader, Demolition, Lunacy, Outrage. (DD)
c/o Marco Garipoli / via Doppi 18 /10095 Gruglasco
(TO) / Italy

FREE THOUGHT #3 / $2 ppd
8 1/2 x 11 -offset-32 pgs.

Slick. Interviews with Rest in Pieces, Vic from
Inside out / Enquirer, Turning Point, Rebound. A
pro-krishna attitude seeps into 50% of the inter¬
views. Lots of pictures of boys making tough guy
faces with microphones stuck in their mourns. (DD)
c/o Eric / 5219 Wyoming Rd. / Betheseda, MD
20816

BAD NEWZ #14 / $3 ppd
8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 64 pgs.

Good punk zine stuff from luminary Bob Z. You’re
not a member of the OFFICIAL punk scene until you
own one. This issue contains Murphys Law, Eugene
Chadboume, Carrion Dog, Alien Sex Fiend and a
history of NY Scumrock. Millions of reviews (DD)
Bob Z c/o of Sarris Bookmarketing / 125 E 23rd St.
#300/NY, NY 10010

JT #3 / $3

11 x 14 - offset -18 pgs. - Finnish.

Slick big black and white zine from Finland. Poison
Idea and Carcass as well as others are interviewed
and issues are discussed. Looks good. Wish I could
tell you more. (DD)

lahettaja / Weke Keranen / Vuolikaisentie 10 / 95420
Tomio / Finland

GRAVELHAND #1 / $2 ppd.

6 x 8 1/4 - copied - 24 pgs.

Only 100 copies of this art and literature booklet are
available. Has a social/political feel that I don’t think
is intentional but that’s how we live some times.
Very good. 14 contributors from all over the world.
Buy as many as you can. (DD)

Anthony / Box 167 / 52 Call Lane / Leeds / West
Yorkshire / LSI 6DT / England (UK)

TWISTED IMAGE #21 /$1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - offset - 8 pgs.

I wouldn’t pay a dollar for this. I wouldn’t pay
anything for tnis. I wouldn’t even bother stealing
this. (DE)

Ace Backwords / 1630 University Ave. / Apt. 26 /
Berkeley, CA 94703

CONSTIPATED NATION #1 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 20 pgs.

This first issue has an interview with Squat or Rot
and Darryl from the Bad Brains plus anti-nazi
opinions and grafics. Not much content but has

P^Box^ff3 / GlLnford, NY 12433

THE RAVEN #8 / $1.50 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 30 pgs.

Interviews with Evil Mothers and Jawbreaker. Zine
and record reviews too. The writing style (and
sometimes the content) drove me nuts. (DE)

The Raven / PO Box 295 / Scheitz, TX 78154

TRASH O RAMA # 1 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 14 pgs.

This is dedicated almost entirely to trashy, low-
budget movies. Interview with Chas Baiun (Deep
Red zine editor / illustrator). Some CD reviews too.
Now I gotta see some of those movies! (DE)

Trash o Rama / 2124 Hawthorne Hts. / DePere, WI
54115

KANDYKORN-JACKHAMMER #2 / 500
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - offset - 24 pgs.

This is a zine that contains some poems, art and very
little about music. Not a whole lot here, but it’s laid
out very nicely. And each one has a hand-painted
cover. (DE)

Kandykom-Jackhammer / PO Box 1964 / Ventura,
CA 93002

TWIN CITIES LARD GORE #1 / 500
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 32 pgs.

This concentrates on animal rights (addresses,
cruelty-free products list, etc.) out also has an
interview with Social Distortion. Send ’em two
stamps and maybe a donation so these folks can print
the next issue without digging in a fountain for
change! And I’d like to know what joke they told that
earned them a dollar. (DE)

Twin Cities Lard Gore / 904 21st Ave. So. #203 /
Minneapolis, MN 55404

DYING TERROR #2 / $3 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 96 pgs.

A strange zine that revolves around a lot of those
gothic metal band logos and pentagrams! Features
interviews with The Accusea, Filthy Christians,
Nuclear Death, Morbid Angel and others of that ilk.
Obviously a lot of work went into it, but it still reeks
of satanic metal. (JY)

Paul Chavez / 2301 Jefferson Davis Hwy. / Apt #

809 / Arlington, VA 22202

THE ROC #3/$1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 10 pgs.

Self-dubbed “Voice of Rock Out Censorship,’’ this
newsletter is a round-up of the current events
happening in the music biz that relates to the
censorship issue. This stuff is essential in a climate
such as the one we are now facing and it’s good to
see people getting up and helping out. (JY)

The ROC c/o Woods / 320 South Cadiz St. / Jewett,
OH 43986

DREGS #3/$2 ppd.

5 x 8 1/2 - printed - 40 pgs.

Interesting little zine from England that features
interviews with Fugazi, Conflict and The Joyce
McKinney Experience. Also contains several articles
relating to vanous themes of sexuality and a lot of
goofy little puzzles and cartoons. Senously funny.

Duncan Dregs / PO Box 110/ Liverpool L69 8DP /
England

ENDLESS RESISTANCE #2 / $1 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 20 pgs.

A clean looking second issue that has a good
coverage of small and large bands. This issue has
interviews with MDC, Filth, Apocalypse and
Inspector 12 plus some opinions, reviews and photos.
Good. (MS)

9325 Garrison Way / Eden Prairie, MN 55347

BARKING SPIDER #3 / 500 ppd.

5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - copied - 16 pgs.

A simple issue of of opinions, an anti-censorship
article, some poetry and zine & record reviews. Good
effort. (MS)

Johnny Spider / 1800 S. Pantano Rd. #114/ Tuson,
AZ 85710

BIRTH FANZINE #4 / $2 ppd.

8 1/2 x 11 - copied - 16 pgs.

Interviews with Killdozer, Propogandhi, Moral Crux
and a good one with Marc Fisher from Primary
Concern fanzine. A lot of effort and emphasis is put
into zine reviews (good!) and examining issues other
than music. 500 from each issue goes to CCNV.

hris East / PO Box 899 / Bryn Mawr, PA
19010-0899

CARING EDGE #2 / $2.65 ppd.

'81/2x11- copied - 32 pgs.

More fucked up shit from a bunch of guilt-ridden
men who have convinced themselves Being “hard”
(which can be defined as being ignorant) and
inflicting their laws on other people’s lives will make
the world a better place. Simplistic opinions drasticly
lacking compassion for anyone other than privileged
men. This stuff is very backwards and reactionary
and all of the arguments lack depth and thought.

Fuck this shit. (MS)

15749 Highview Dr. / Apple Valley, MN 55124

MASODIKLATAS #4/$2 ppd.

5 1/2x 8 1/2 - offset - 56pgs. -Hum [arian.
Interviews with No Means No, Big Black, Rapeman,
Jesus Lizard plus reviews and translated lyrics. A lot
of content. (MS)

Masodik Latas D. c/o Racz Mihaly / XIIIU 35
Budapest / 1172-Hungary

CALVIN & CANDY #1 /250 or stamp
5 1/2x8 1/2 - copied - 8 pgs.

Bruno calls this a comic book. But it’s more of a
story with a few pics. I guess it’s supposed to be
about Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) when he’s
24 and has replaced Hobbes with an inflatable doll
named Candy. I guess it’s okay. I couldn’t read this
all the way through. (LH)

Bruno Nadalin / Box 813 / Chatham, NJ 07928

WOODPECKER #1 /$1 ppd.

11 x 1/2 x 14 - newsprint - 12 pgs.

Simple but interesting paper. Basic information on
the Greyhound strike, the war on drugs, and more.

No particular political line here. But I do wonder
why they thanlc the R.C.Y.B., the Spartacist League
and the S.W.P... (LH)

People’s Justice Alliance / PO Box 281 / Chatta¬
nooga, TN 37401

ANUBIS #1 / 500 or stamps.

7 x 8 1/2 - copied - 32 pgs.

This is kind of nice for the first issue. Some short
personal stories, political stuff, and bits of Egyptian
things as well. Still, this is all pretty friendly and
personal. Pretty good, though I don’t really go for a
lot of the poetry. (LH)

PO Box 1253 / Placentia, CA 92620

AND WHEN THERE’S DARKNESS $1 ppd.

11 x 17 - copied - 6 pgs.

I like zines that come m weird shapes and sizes. Not
really that weird shaped. But this is nice and big. Oh,
the content... Lots of interesting writing here. Some
kinda heavy (pretentious?) and philosophical. Others
more creative and maybe political. All m all, it’s an
interesting format that shows a lot of potential. (LH)
Keith Allison / PO Box 132 / Buckner, KY 40010

AMONAL #1 / $3 ppd.

8 1/4 x 11 3/4 - offset - 44 pgs. - Spanish.

Well, it sure is big and neat. I can’t read it. But it
would seem to be a good combination of political
stuff and music (punk, hardcore, and metal stuff).
Some interesting graphics as well. Interviews with
Jingo De Lunch, Anarkotiks, Soul Side and more.

Josefo / Adc 6.037 / 50007 - Zaragoza / Spain

Blood Guts & Pussy
LP/Cassette

Smell The Magic

LP/CaSS6tt6 Coming Soon

For a free catalog write: Sub Pop, PO Box 20645, Seattle, WA 98102. Distributed by Caroline and Sub Pop

SELLING MY RECORD, tape and t-shirt col¬
lection from 1962 to the present, all kinds of
music, from folk to punk. Please send me your
want lists. Bob Farrington, 7 Florence Dr.,
Clark, NJ 07066.

PSYCHOTRONIC T-SHIRTS, cannibal girls,
Charles Manson, slasher movies, medical di¬
sasters, S&M ads, bondage, Ted Bundy after
execution, Weekly World News, Texas
Chainsaw Massacre and more! Over 120 de¬
signs. For catalog, send $1 to Mutilation
Graphics, 3765-B Oriole Ct., Shrub Oak, NY
10588.

ADRENALIN RECORDS Mail Order:
Hardcore, thrash, punk, noise. Send SASE
(UK), 2 IRC (rest of the world) for massive list.
Adrenalin Records, PO Box 10, Earl Shilton,
Leicester LE9 7BX. England,

HARDCORE, STRAIGHT EDGE, noise, new
wave. Limited editions, color wax, promos, etc.
Send two stamps for biweekly list, one stamp
for each additional list. Goldmine readers need
not respond. Vinyl Ink, 955 Bonifant St., Silver
Spring, MD 20910.

MINK CAPITAL TERROR 11 song V e p. $3
ppd. worldwide. Bands, we will trade 1-2 cop¬
ies of our T for yours! Write to: MCT 1000
Essex SE #2 Minneapolis, MN 55414,

BLIZZARD OF BLOOD presents “Washing
Away the Sickness of Sins” a 60 min. compila¬
tion cassette with Canadian and American
bands. Featuring Helios Creed, Groupoem, Boy
Dirt Car and Happy Flowers. Plus many oth¬
ers. Way cool package and sounds, all for $6
and $1 postage. Send a SASE for complete
catalog: PO Box 10586, Detroit, MI 48210.

BANDS SLEEP CHEAP. I have seven extra
beds for touring bands. Clean sheets, bathing,
kiechen and laundry facilities. Good videos,
good vibes, clean trippy house. Close to the best
clubs. Eight or more guests OK with sleeping
bags. Smokers welcome, Rates negotiable. Will
accept tapes/t-shirts as payment. Call ahead.
Linda (209)266-4038. Fresno, CA, mid-way
between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

P. A. SALE: EV, JBL, CV, EAW, Bose, Har¬
binger “ sound Amplified” Hernan/ Radley
(415) 647-5890 PA Hire: 32 ch. Yamaha, Crest
DAT & Live 8 track.

NEW ORDER RECORDS is pleased to an¬
nounce the release of the long awaited world
wide debut by The Roidz Relentless loud guitar
assaults with grinding rhythms and feirce vo¬
cals, every song hits you from a different angle.
$8 ppd. New Order Records P.O. Box 6185
W.P.B. FL 3340

YO ALL THAT PURCHASED Records from
new beginning records and received them fuck-
up, bent, or warped, thank Billy Rubin of Half
Off/Haywire for the bull shit/careless pack¬
aging. We wanted to set the record straight.
Eric & Matt of Neanderthal.

SOCIOPOLITICAL Comentaries, interviews,
photos, etc. needed for zine. ads printed free,
contributes get free issue. Huddled Masses,
1403 Wanamassa PI., Ocean Twp. NJ 07712.

WANNA HEAR NEW BANDS? Then get the
“go Bcrzerk” comp. tape. Hear old faves like
Screeching Weasel, Sockcye, & Disscnt.Plus
hot new bands like Collateral Damage, Sons of
Ishmel,Handy w/ Shovels. 13 bands , 44 songs,
90 minutes for only $3! Berzerk Tapes 9890
Tamarack/ Brecksville, OH 44141 See review
in MRR # 87.

TWO GREAT NEW TAPES! First - Sockcye

“my Dick Fell Off Again! ” cassetc -60 minutes
of unrelcased craziness! Live and Unrelcased
stuff. Second - REaction “Pcnus Rarities”! $3
each. Berzerk Tapes 9890 Tamarack/
Brecksville, OH 44141. Bands! Tapes always
needed for future comps!

SMALL URINARY SPECIMAN Looking for a
def unsalted zine called “The Grass Isrvt Al¬
ways Greener” all who contribute get free
copy. Send anything to stan c/o homeslice, P.O.
box 10407, charlotte nc. 28212. hold the mayo.

BOY SWALLOWS DUNG. Homeslice needs
taped interviews, spoken word poetree, etc. for
awhimsicklezine called Audiozine. itsbasically
a zine that you can listen to. send anything!
bands send demos for reviewing and comps, we
also love to distribute, send all to stan c/o
homeslice, p.o. box 10407, charlotte, n.c. 28212
Usa. Tanx

RECORD’S FOR SALE or trade... Blitz (War¬
riors) (Never Surrender) (Telecommunications)
7" Cause for Alarm 7" boot, Discharge 1st 7"
Haywire/Left Insane split 7”, Haywire (Pain¬
less Steel) 7” clear vinyl hand #rd, Infest 7 ,
boot, Rollins Band (1000 Times Blind/Crazv
Lover) 7", Minor Theat (Live At Buff Hall) 7 .
Send bids & trade list to FH/ 900 Azalea St/
Oxnard, CA 93030... Please write if you have
SSD (The Kids Have Their Say) 7" or Fugazi 7"
Sub-Pop.

LOOKING FOR THESE 7's: Outburst - red,
Unit Pride, NFAA, Aware, Judge - blue or
schism. Also looking for shirts in XL: Raw
Deal, Hard Stance, Breakdown, Beyond, Ab¬
solution, Brotherhood, YOT w/cow on front.
Greg/ Thin Ice Productions/ PO Box 672/
Manahawkin, NJ 08050. Tim from Axtion
Packed/Jade Tree, where the fuck are my
records I ordered on Jan. 20, you greedy ass
fucking liar.

MISFITS - SAMHAIN - Danzig. Have tons of
Misfits - Al’s Bar ’82, Michigan Wcbn,
Creepshow, plus many more. Samhain- Return
of Misfit, On Earth, plus more Danzig - Fresh

Flesh, Danceof Death, demos, everything VHS,
interviews, articles, tapes. Mi kc/ 326 Frederick
Ln/ Naperville, IL 60565_

LOOKING FOR any records by Boyd Rice and
other “noise” artists. Also want strange new
cllppings/artlcles. Anyone who is re-locating
to Vegas and wants to start a “band,” contact
me. Aaron/ 5332 Winston Dr/ Las Vegas, f JV
89103 .

RARE PUNK RECORDS for sale. Social Dis¬
tortion, Conflict, Dils< Flux, Misfits, and
hundreds more from 1976 to the present at
reasonable prices, cd’s and more. For catalog,
send 2 stamps (IRC’s overseas) to: Dr. Strange
Records, P.O. Box 7000-117, Alta Loma CA ,
USA 91701.

MENTALLY BROKEN VOL.3 is out now! In¬
ternational compilation tape with 14 bands as
Resist, Jawbox, Anarkotics, Nocif, GO!, Kaos
General etc... 60 minutes of grept and various
hardcore with an excellent sound quality. $3
(Europe) $4 (world to: Broken Tapes c/o Herve
Crumlere, 260 bid de $ouville, 84200
Carpentras, France.

RECORD LABELS that take your music and
give you nothing in return - Mystic (MRR stop
running their phoney Super Seven ads!), Walk
Thru Fyre, Panx and New Wave. Bands beware.

CROSSING THE RED SEA with the Adverts.
Anyone who could tape this for me, please
write. I’ll send you a blank cassette or money.
I also need the address for Semiotexte and
someone to turn me onto some Situationist
writings. Send help to: Ken, 4825 Wexford,
Corpus Christi, TX 78411,

LOOKING TO BECOME friends with people
living in or around London. I will be coming
there next summer and would like friends to
hang with and places to crash. Write: Hutch,
2310 Kcnnwynn Rd, Wilmington, Delaware
19810.

7” AUCTION: Rapeman, Soundgardcn, Halo of
Flies, Pavement, Cop Shoot Cop, Liviiing,
Breakdown, Jawbreaker, Amphetamine Rep¬
tile, SubPop, Trcehousc, Noisevillc, CZ, Drag
City and more. Write for free list. J. Wingate/
Box 2256, Albany, NY 12220

PSYCHOAUCOUSTICTHRASHPUNK and
more from Rusty Cow Records. Debut X" re*
leases from Indiana’s fastest, loudest,, coolest
and weirdest. Acid Green, Monkeyfisth,
Blacklisted, Phrogs and Steve Kowalski. All
limited edition colored vinyl In poly bags with
real sleeves. $4 each ppd or all five for $15in
the U.S. Add additional for Canada and over¬
seas. Rusty Cow Records, PQ Box 55072. Indpls,'
IN 46205. We buy/trade toys, tool

RECORD PRESSING. Low prices and guar¬
anteed quality. Why waste your hard earned S$

| on demo tapes when you*can really impress
j them with a record and make money too!

I Quantities of 200-?. We specialize in 7” and 12"
colored vinyl. Fast reliable service. Write for
free price list today. Mike Sheets, PO Box
55072, Indpls, IN 46205

TOYS WANTED* Cash $$ paid lor your old
toys. Wanted are action figures; especially
Major matt Mason, GI Joe, Mego, Space. SirFl,
comic book and TV characters ip good condi¬
tion. Clean out your attic, basement and your
brother’s and parent’s closet and send me a list
or picture of what you found, Mike Sheets, rO
Box 55072, Indpls, IN 46205,t;o.

MISFITS VIDEO ! “Why Be Something...”
Detroit T.V. 1982, also Danzig live in Sheffield,
England 1988. VHS/NTSC format only. SI 5.00
each PPD. or both on one tape for S25.00 PPD.
You will not find better copies of either any¬
where! Cash or money orders payable to D.
Fitch c/o ATB, Suite 118, P.O. Box 3894,
Milford, CT 06460, USA. Foreign orders add
S2.00 per tape for postage.

LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL with "EARLXDEMOS And Stu&QOut*

ing Japanese music collection willing to be takes” op audio

decent person and tape to trade and/or get a j Dan^g first Uve show 8* ip$ervlew v $q.v0 PTO,.
mnnAO I Zii'c m QIff! an OK? Both laoes come with, covers and complete

little money. Let's make an agreement OK?
Greg PO Box 482, Paoli, PA 19301. ?

OPEN ZINE #3, still a few available for a stamp.
#4 scheduled forfall, looking for art and comics
contributions (new work if possible) no racist/
sexist etc. Need 1 or 2 bands for flexi comp, to
go with #4 too. Open Zine, PO Box 482, Paoli,
PA 19301. How can you tell YOT “Can’t” is 1st
edition.

Both tape* come jylt^ «pye«| complete
track lists. Cash ormoney ordwapayable teD.
Fitch c/o ATB, Butte. H8, P.9,: Box 3894,
Milford, CT, 06460, USA, foreign orders add
$2.00 per tape for postage.

WANTED: Any SubPop 7“s or 12"s. I will trade
or pav. I have lots of live tapes and records.
Send for list. Andy O’Sullivan, 68890 Benham
Beach Rd, Sturgis, MI 49091.

PLEASE HELP ME! I need to find my beauti¬
ful Roving Gypsy X! My name is Eric, I met up
with her and Varda in New York City last Feb.
’90. If anyone knows where my love is at, please
tell her that I will be at my brother’s place in
Colorado until Jan. ’91. Tell her that I still want
to go to Germany with her this coming summer
of’91. Thank you.

OUT OF PRINT Circle One LPs ($12), live and l
studio video (40 min, $22), early demo and live
tape ($7). All come with tons of old flyers.
Everything ppd. Mike Vallejo, 9635 Marjorie
St, Pico Rivera, CA 90660.

FANZINE EDITORS: Need photos? Have
thousands of B&W pics. Will trade for adver¬
tising or sell at cost (paper and postage). All to
GWAR to B, Surfers to Tackhead, Ministry to
SffFU. As seen in Jersey Beat, MRR, Grot, Ox,
Reargarde, etc; Shawn Scallen c/o TRANS-
FM, Room 517 Unicentre, Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ont., K1S 5B6 Canada

CONTRIBUTORS NEEDED. Send in all art¬
work, political editorials, poetry, shorts, column
ideas, out-of-state scene reports. Bands: send
photo, band history and tape (if poss.). Free
classifieds, cheap ads. All contributors recog¬
nized in zine w/free issues. Ann and Kimba, PO
Box 2723, La Puente, CA 91722

WANTED: VARUKERS One Struggle One
Fight, plus all other records. Also want
MauMau’s, Chaos UK, Omega Tribe EPs. Have:
Crucifix 7** Jcons of Filth, Conflict, Discharge
7"ers and more. Prefertrade. Write to Kiki, 319
N. Marianna Jiv$ t Los Angeles, CA 90Q63,
(213)266-0318

NEEDED: ELECTRO Hippies/Generic split,
Melvins/Mudhoney split, Shitter Ltd-1 st 12”,
Ripcord-flcxi, Agathocles/Disgorge split,
Killdozer-Ladies Only, Chaos UK-Mere Slaves,
Disclaim-Chaos & War flexi, 7"s by BGK, Sore
Throat, Psycho Sin and all Gore. Fear of God,
Outo, SOB, Rose Rose, Killercrust, Lipcrcam.
Neil, 1574 39th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122.

SEX! NEED SEX! N.E.W.S. is constructing a
compilation tape for those bands that have
tunes containing the idea of sex. Bands have
your sound heard everywhere in the world. For
those who want in on it send in those tunes and
we will get back to you. You may also send
songs without words of sex for other compi¬
lations. Thanks. N.E.W.S., 734 S. Lee St.,
Alexandria, VA 22314.

MISFITS VIDEO COMP. ’78 Baltimore, com¬
plete Flipside show, Braineaters, Why Be
SomethingSamhain-Baltimore ’86. $30 or
trade. Drew, #9 Estates Lane East,
Edwardsville, IL 62025. Wanted: Mudhoney,
C.O.C., Coffin Break, Misfits.

HAVE FOR TRADE - Pork Dukes “Bend and
Flush” 7”, Iron Cross “Hated and Proud” 7”
etc. etc. etc. Also, send all want/trade lists.
Write or call. Greg, 2342 W. 24th St., Chicago,
IL 60608 USA, (312)523-3156.

' 26 YKS OLDER into L7, Pandoras, Gwar,
NOFX, Johnny Thunders, ICR T, Social Dis¬
tortion, Misfits, and GBH wants to trade flyers,
photos videos, posters. Also looking for Dogs
Damours stuff. Billy Whitfield, 4805 Wren
Wood Ave., Blatimorc, MD 21212.

First 500 on nulti-colored wax. $8 US $10
world cash or money orders ?56I7 Ralceda,
Valencia, CA 91355 USA.'

LOOKING FOR TONY! from Virginia. I met
him in Myrtle Beach S.C. in June. He once
attended SMC in Spartonburg but transferred
to USC in Columbia. He has/had a band. I
can’t recall name (Strawberry something or
something strawberries). If you know him or if
he’s reading this, please write me: Hevenly
Wood, 560 Hawthorne Ave, Woodruff SC 29388.

AGAINST THE RULE FOTOS- list include:
Rhythm Pigs, Scream, Government Issue, Le¬
thal Aggression, YOT, Doom Concrete Sox,
Csociety?, UK Subs, Heresy, Kreator & jugoslav
hardcore thrash-punk outfits. Only trade.
Intermusic, Strahinica Bana 43, 11106,
Beograd, Yugoslavia.

STRENGTH THRU OIJ/PUNK:

“Predskazanje” (Foretelling) fanzine desper¬
ately needs Oil/Punk: bands, cassette, record
labels to get involved. We’re seeking for U.S,
Oil groups 8s individuals too. Stay united !
Branko Kunovski, Bocka 47, 11090, Beograd,
Yugoslavia.

IS THERE SOMEONE who can trade/sell his
Godflesh 7”, Jingo D.L. 12"? I’ve tons of rare
stuff I’d like to trade. I got 10 copies of the
Y.O.T. live 7”, I can trade or sell. I look for X-
Claim stuff, Indigesti/Wretched, 7"ers by both
and Italian early punk. Paolo Pctralia, v.le
Beethoven 63, 00144 Rome, Italy.

NUCLEUS: THE CORE a musical journey Into

orders ro cash to: Jack Bashur, 680 E. Beau St.,
Apt. #36, Washington, PA 15301.,

STUPIDS. RARE DEMOS 4-songEP. Only 1000
pressed. No U.S. distribution. Few left. Only $5
ppd. P.B.J., 40 Westminister #11, Venice, CA
90291. Cash only, guaranteed no rip-off!

MAYA WILLEY. Where are you!?! Please,
anyone who knows her or her whereabouts
please contact me. Maya I’m Sony. Just write
or call me collect (301) 327-9642. D.Kaplan,
226 S. Patterson Ave., Baltimore MD 21231.

FREE RECORDS. Could someone tape for me:
Plaid Retina “boxcar”, Crimpshine LP, Stikky
LP, any OPiV, Neurosis, Stikky, Crimpshine
demos or live tapes. I don’t have much in
return, but I’ll try. Andrew Green, 516 Vose
Ave., South Orange, NJ 07079. I have Filth,
Jawbreaker, Econochrist, Corrupted Morals,
etc. live on the radio.

PHOTOS, FLIERS, and tapes wanted for trad¬
ing purposes. Artist from Kalamazoo is espe¬
cially interested in trading offbeat photos-
please don’t send anything graphic. I like to
listen to God Bullies, the Replacements, Sugar
Cubes, and Skinny Puppy, I would like to start
an A D.E S. (Ad-Dicks, jEgenst, Straight Edge)
club and welcome any and all letters. Write to:
Commander Clown, 641 Carr Si, Kalamazoo,
M3 49001.

FEMALE, 18, into Sisters of Mercy, Mission,
Japan, Bauhaus, Ministry, Vampire Chronicles,
film, photography, & zincs. Will write to any¬
one who responds. Send to: Susan M. Priolo,
3932 S.Main St. Rd., Batavia, NY 14020.

TRADE: I HAVE Chain of Strength 7” (G.V.)
Wide Awake L.S. t-shirt, Smorgasbord t-shirt,
American Standard NJ t-shirt (ail XL), I want
: shirts by SoulSide, Kingface,3, Ignition,
Dischord, etc.(XL please). Jeremy, 34 North
f^nf.North Wales, PA. 19454, PS. I also want
the Kingface 12 ep.

ANTISEEN is looking fora drummer. Must be
willing to tour at least 6 months out of theyear.
We’re about to release our 9th record and hit
the road. You must relocate to NC. Leave
message (704) 343-9845.

INTEGRITY. JAWBREAKER, FACECORD

(OVERKILL RECORDS1 We’refuckingplsscdl
Issue #87 of MRR had a 1/2 page act from
Cargo Records ip Chicago claiming to be “In¬
dependent Vinyl for the. World’! and wanting to
sendthem their stuff, Cargo Records is nothing
but a bull shit rip off. We sent them 100 records
^ months ago for which we xeclevpd partial

m ent only after months of phone calls and
y telling them that we had Brotherhood
eps. we’d sendthein.We basically had to lie and
trtch them Into payings a.portion of the
money that they. nothing Inde¬

pendent about this type of big business rip off. ?■

IOVERKILL RECORDS! The same
mothcrfucking shit exactly happened with us
for Caroline Records (yeah YOT’s label) but
they got us for 250 records. Support Real
Independents not these businessmen out for a
buck labels. Revolution!

_ *•»**•• svapuuo

NEED INFO - send any info or photos on the get ’em at the post offi
bands Fear, Misfits, Youth Brigade, X, Social Send to; Mykei Boa
Distortion, Black Flag and Germs. Send to Sobudai, 3-4774-153
ftewy Maye$ r lll Stokes Dr, Smyrna, TN Kanagawa228, Japan.

EMOTIONAL ZINE. Journal entries, poetry
and shit. 75c ppd, or cool shit. Tasa you are a
man! Timothy Quilthead person, you screwed
| me (great)! Any fcmale-Mongoloid- Vcgan-
j straight-edge-jazzercizing skins into libido
j rollers tar disco skating and “wearing black”

| write: Crooked Smile/Cracked Lips, 16339
Stuebner-Airlinc, #205, Spring, TX 77379.

JAPANESE COMICS and Videos: Including
the notorious Rapeman. Send 3 I.RC.’s (you
get ’em at the post office) for a completeiist.
Send to: Mykei Board, #301 Hoyconfolt
Sobudai, 3-4774-153 Sobudai, Zama-shi,
Kanagawa 228, Japan.

VIDEO! SWANS, MISFITS, Meatmen, Lee¬
way, Gorilla Biscuits, DOA, Cramps, Sick Of It
All, Y.O.T., Bold, Cro-Mags, Ramones, Thun¬
ders, Iggy, and many more. Send a stamped
envelope for a HUGE list or call: (201) 853-
4420. Peter DeMattia, 8 Hudson Rd., Hewitt,
N.J. 07421 USA.

WILL TRADE mint copy of limited ed. Noc¬
turnal Emissions LP “Beyond Logic Beyond
Belief” with certificate of authenticity and
members signatures, for S.P.K. singles (except
“Meat Processing”). Specify condition and
titles. All serious offers considered. B.Miller,
2040 S.W. 49th St, Corvallis, OR 97333.

YOUTH 0F TODAY ’** Brea k Down LP on

VJi t-U i 1 rr>11 A,;, XT ...

send us nude photos and your sexiest unwashed 7" flexi for trade onlyf Pascal Claude,

undeigamifnW Ian’s Rope, 1245 Tontl, f Stelh ertma tt 113. CH-6370 Stans. Swltzer-

LaSalle, IL 61301.

FOR SALE OR TRADE: M.I.A./Genocide
L.P.(Sealed), Misfits "Evil Live” L.P. green wax
(Sealed), Chain Of Strength-E.P. green wax,
Up Front- “Spirit” L.P. w/ red cover (500
pressed, Sealed), Warzone- “Don’t Forget...”
original on Fist (Sealed), Minor Threat- “Buff
Hall”, Lost Generation- “Never Work”. I need
C.I.A. E.P. Violent Children- E P. Bad Brains-
“House Of Suffering” promo 7". ATB, Suite
118, P.O. Box 3894, Milford, CT, 06460, USA

IT’S WEIRD/GORE/ANARCHY/Anti-Nazis/
Psychos/X/ more. All hand screened 100%
heavy wt. cotton T-shirts/sweats. This months
special “KILL YUPPIE SCUM” (wht) shirts
(red) ink $6.99 Plus postage/handling for list
and/or correspondence send SASE and or phone
number to Psychotick, P.O. Box 18205, Seattle,
WA, 98118. Also thanx to all U-MRR readers
who responded.

UPSTATE ZINE STILL NEEDS YOU: #1 (Look
for review in this issue) #2 out soon w/ Carry
Nation, Headfirst, Forced Down, Keep In Mind,
Skatter-Brain, Good And Plenty Zine. We
need lots of contributions, anything, write real
fast: 6 Meadow Ln. #5, Clinton, NY, 13323.

MISFITS, SET SALE! 3 Hits boot $20, Bullet
boot $10, Perf Crime $15, Walk Among 2x7
(red) $30, Rat Fink, Auto, (clear) $30, Invasion,
Auto $35, Famous, Filmland (grey) $25, Evil Is
(green) $20, 9 Toes P.M. Records Auto, $25,
write Dave, 6 Meadow Ln. #5, Clinton, NY,
13323.

PHOENIX PUNX: HELP US! A friend and I
are Moving to Phoenix and we need somewhere
to stay or any information on Phoenix(Places
to go, what there is to do, friends, etc.). We are
both 18, male, and desperate to get out of here!
We’re decent (some even say “nice”), and won’t
fuck any family members. At least I won’t!
Please write to us with anything you would
think to be helpful. Dave Poop & Jake 1891
Valleyview Kd„ Hollister, CA, 95023 Thanx!

STRAIGHT-EDGE KID looking for Japanese
Mo-stec tv shows such as Space Giants on
video tape. Also looking for animated films
and series such as Star Bieds and Star Blazers.
Anyone into straight-edge scene, male or female
please write. I’m in un-edge country and I’m
alone. Favcs include GB, YOT, No For An
Answer, etc. Write Bill Glover, 119 Whittington
Drive, Greenville, SC, 29615 or call (803) 458-
8952

FOR SALE- 700 LP’s, 7"». European, Japa¬
nese, US. And original release tapes- $5 maxi¬
mum. Hardcore & softcore. Asia Kask, DRI,
Misfits, Weirdos, etc. Many compilations. Send
for list. Chrisxbct, Box 16295, San Diego, CA,
92176. Note new zip. BCT lives.

TAPE/RECORD TRADERS WANTED.
Looking for Japcore, Scandinavian HC, early
80’s USHC, anarcho/crust, SE and more. Have
approx. 5000 punk, HC, metal demo/live tapes
and records to pick from. Also 200+ records for
trade. Send lists to: Arco, J.V. Lennepkade
279-1,1054 ZV Amsterdam, Netherlands. Af¬
ter October 8 write: Andreas Bonnstraat 9-4,
1091 AV Amsterdam, Netherlands.

| FREE! A.S S.A.U.L.T. KAMIKAZE PARA-

Information Society now forming mailing list.
If you’d enjoy receiving visually stimulating
■ ‘zines and peri-odd-icals write/call:
A.S.S.A.U.L.T. c/o Fettish P.O. Box 6592,
Fortworth, Texas, 76115, (817) 924-4442.

MISFITS/ SAMHAIN AUCTION! Over 25
originals and boots. Send stamp for list, rules,
and current bids. Auction will end late Sep¬
tember/early October. Tom Crevier, Harvey
Mudd College, Claremont, CA, 917fl. P.S. Hi
Laura!

RADIO AIRPLAY for any and all hardcore,
metal, ska, reggae, vinyl or CD to Chris Murrie,
2235 West Acres, Joliet, IL 60435 USA.

IN SEARCH OFa skater by the name of Jeff St,
Hill. Last seen in Ocean City, MD. If anyone
knows the location of or inf ormation leading to
his whereabouts- please, please contact
Susanne 208 N. Dithridge St., Apt. A Pitts¬
burgh, PA 15213.

ANYONE INTERESTED IN TRADING qual¬
ity copies of various hardcore records or tapes
plese send list. Mine includes SSD, DYs ,
Project X, etc.- lots more. Send flyers- I’ll
return the favor. X-tra 14 Hichory Ln., No.
Bruns, NJ 08902 (201)846-7562.

I’M ON WELFARE and I need money, so please
put a dollar in an envelope and send it to me,
and I’ll send you something of equal value.
Thanks. Serious only please. Scott, 800A
Dunellen Ave., Dunellen, NJ 08812.

ROADKILL RECORDS— Please write or call
if you can help us locate three people who
ordered records from us. We’re having trouble
getting them delivered: Dean Carrico, formerly
of San Jose, CA. Adam Seconds, address un¬
known. Esync Ocular Interchange, Miami, FL.
Roadkill Records, PO Box 477175, Chicago IL
60647. Roadkill Hotline: (312)829-1522. We
love you, Jeff Johns.

AUCTION Misfits: 7” s ; “Evil is...”; “ Walk
Among Us” Double 7 {Blue} , LP’s “ If You
Don’t Know... “ {Red); “ Live NOTLD.” Also
“Ghruls Night Out “ {cassette}. SAMHAIN:
“ Return of the Misfit” {Blue}, Danzig 7’s; “
Dance of Death” Double 7 {with poster} Fresh
Flesh.” All only played once no bullshit. Bids
end Halloween. P.O. Box 831, Relstertown,
MD. 21136-0831.

WAKE UP !!! O.K. now that I have your at¬
tention, NOT YOUR BITCH #4 is for sale for
500, and a stamp Support the women in our
alternative “scene”. Also issue #3 is still
available for the same price. Please send your
order to N.Y.B. 1072 Dayton Ave. , St. Paul ,
M.N. 55104.Thanx for your support!!

ATTENTION SPAZTIC UNDERWORLD
PRODUCTIONS has just released a 44 song,
145 band compilation extravaganza entitled.
Ronald Mcmutilation Compilation”, It’s a full
90 min. of listening pleasure, and is available to
you for only $3.00! BANDS NEEDED! - for
another compilation! Also out now- call them
noisey, call them industrial, or just call them

INTEGRITY Long sleeve shirts. $12.00 ppd. to
Biyan Leitger 317 Woodbridge, Grano Blanc,
MI, 48439

WE’LL MAKE 'EM miss us. Derek Smalls’
prophecy rings true. I am in dire need of any
and all Spinal Tap merchandise! Records, T-
shirts, Posters, hats, whatever. Will pay (or
trade) anything! Tom McCarthy, 6222 Tabor
Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19111. Please help!

DISARRAY ZINE #4/5 is still available.
Forthright, Soulside, Shudder To Think,
Nothin’ Much & more. Plus: the African People’s
Solidarity Commitee, comix, opinions and other
shit. Eileen Lloyd, 1124 Kerper St, Philadel¬
phia, Pa 19111. $2 ppd bub.

ATTENTION CARTOONISTS!!! I’m gonna be
puttin’ together a compilation fanzine of sorts
of all independent underground cartoonists
willing to contribute their comics. Get in touch
for more info and send a sample if ya feel like
it. I know ther’e a ton of ya out there, so write!
, Tom McCarthy, 6222 Tabor Ave, Philadelphia,
I PA 19111.

I’M LOOKING FOR Misfits boots: Night of the
Living Dead 7”, Halloween 7*\ Who killed
Marilyn 7”, 3 Hits From Hell 7”, Horror Busi¬
ness 7” and Violent World 7”, No auction or
bids! Looking for other stuff too. Write to: C.
Charette, 4442 Adam, Montreal, QC HIV IT6,
Canada.

LET’S TRADE: I have: DYS, Mob, NA, CFA,
FU’s, Avengers, Discharge, Exploited, TU, Vice
Squad, Varukers, Disorder, UK Subs, Ruts,
Upstarts, Blitz, Rejects, Skrewdriver, Sham
and tons more originals, also some boots
(CroMags, YOT Misfits, SSD, Dag Nasty, Bad
Religion...) Send list to: H. Pioennow,
Mcisenwegk. 23 Kiel 14, W.Germany.

WE REALLY WANT to thank everyone who
helped on our recent Northwest tour. We’U be
coming up again in October, and we’d ipve to
talk to any all-ages promoters, especially
Tacoma oj* Victoria. EP r s $3. Nuisance, PO Box
14712, Santa Rosa, CA 95402. (707)792- 2542.

UP FOR BID: 7 M s - Antidote, Project X (orig.),
GI - legless Bull, Youth Brigade - what price...?
SFA, LPs: Walk Among Us (orig. - pink cover),
Faction - No Hidden Messages, all GI LP (color
vinyle). Want: Big Black - Lungs, Bulldozer.
Get It Away. Mike BS - 678 Thrush Ave - West
Hempstead, Ny - 11552.

HALO OF FLIES - “No Time”, “Circling The
Pile” and “Ritchies Dog” fa; FranfixTEP,
and many others... I have a large trade list.
Send me your want/trade lists, Mickey, 1932Q
Stillmore St, Apt lift Canyon Country, CA
91351.

BANDS! Watching sister vomit zinc wants to
hear from you! Send tapes, poetry and artwork
to:POBox236,Nesconsct, NY 11767.Thcmore
fucked up the better! Send SI.00 for an issue..

OUT NOW! Demo of FhuU% §.g. band,
Today’s Waste... Order your copy how! Only $4
(ai rmail everywhere)! Oi* trade to any B.E. zmea,

WANTED: Chrome. Throbbing Gristle, SPK,
Z’ev, Psychic TY, Rhythm & Noise, Test Dept,

Cleveland, and they're demo can bo your’s for ...
$2.00. SO - contact me at S.U.P. 8101 Richard "

74 20600 Turku, Finland. Woarethenewjur^dr

True till death! w?- ^

Coil, vintage Caberet Voltaire, Clock DVA, and

Einsturzende Neubauten's “Kollaps” (1st
pressing) plus other rarities and info on the
mentioned bands, Best $ paid, or willing to
trade. Your list gets mine. Also seeking corre¬
spondence with any one into these bands. Don’t
wasttime! S.A.S.E. to Carlos Jr., 2144 Bass)er
St,, N. Las Vegas, NV. 89030. Cheers. /

CANADIAN SKINHEAD 21 years, Once again
wants to keep in touch ! Starting KD produc¬
tion distributers, bands, stores, or those of you
just in the scene - Be cropped or spiked - Give
Me A Shout. Domcnic Castelli P.O. Box 1053;
Montreal, Quebec; Canada: H3X 3Y2

nrjJUi : o l u imuvjii^ uu juayiuuo. £>ucu;ii, r jl«,

in November. I would like to meet fun people,
musicians, etc. beforeI arrive. I’m into Harley’s,
the Ramones, GG, old Nervous Eaters, horror
and cult movies. I’ll answer all letters sent.
Write to me at: Lisa, 1350 Forest Ave Apt 2,
Portland, ME 04103

ATTENTION all recorded hardcore bands:
Campus DJ is looking to expand his selection
in St Louis. Any bands with material recorded
on vinyl please respond. Bands selected for
airplay will be sent playlist confirmation.
KWUR c/o Charles Long Washington Univer¬
sity Campus, Box 1182, St. Louis, MO 63130.

“HARD FUCKIN' CORE" MRR #83, “Killer,
way cool” Jerry A (Poison Idea), Subverse 7” ep
“Give Jesus Back to the Martians”. 6 glorious
hymns and an inspirational poster. $4, T.
Shields, 5889 Lanark St, Vancouver, BC, V5P
2Y4, Canada.

MAKE AN OFFER. Crass Bullshit Detectors
#1,2, & 3, autographed Young Canadians EP,
Vancouver Complications comp. Subhumans
12 “, NOTA Moscow EP, Tom Shields, 5889
Lanark St, Vancouver, BC, V5P 2Y4, Canada.

TRADE & AUCTION: 7” boots from SSD,
M.Threat, Bad Brains, Project X, Misfits. LP
boots from CroMags (live) and 10”, Fugazi,
D.Kenncdys, Mob47, Youth Brigade, ENT,
Misfits and a lot of European Straight Edge,
’77, Noise stuff, European LP version from
YOT, Napalm Death 7 M s. For a complete list:
Markus Haas, Lowenstr.10, 7920 Heidcnheim
5, W.Germany.

HELLO, looking to find an address for a
person who was a member of Bom Without a
Face during their 2 singles, I have an intcrePG
Box 482, Paoli, Pa 19031.

LOOKING FOR ART/Comics. I have no stan¬
dards for what is good art, all is cool I feel. A
couple simple requirements, Black ik, Non rac-
ist/sexist/ect, not printed before, no larger than
T } square, need for Open Zine #4( Something
Different) Be creative. PO Box 482, Paoli, Pa
19301.

| FOR SALE Misfits- Bullet, Mourning noise,
Mucho Sub pop + Amphetamine Reptile, Sonic
Youth, Mudhoncy, Sex Pistols, F.u’s, Rapeman
7”s, Bauhaus+Damned rarities, Devils Juke
Box, Naked Raygun Pink 12”, Magazines,
Killdozer, Germs + Lots more sens S.A.S.E for
list to, Requerdos a Todos, PO Box 162113,
Sac., Ca 95816

FOR SALE My Life with the thrill kill Kult-lst
ep, Some have to dance, some have to kill-ep, I
see good spirits & I see bad spirits-lp, All mint
& $5 each postpaid, Tit Wrench- Go back to
Europe- ep on lavender vinyl $3 postpaid. Send
cash, check or m.o. to Tom Pluck, 291 Park Ave.
3-3B, Nutley, NJ 07110.

WANTED a lot of US Straight Edge rarities.
Please send asking prices (be serious), trades
welcome, send your trade/want lists and you
get ipy lists. All openmindcd persons feel free
to write; penpals wanted. Markus Haas,
Lowenstr.10, 7920 Heidenhelm 5, W.Germany.

A NEW GERMAN LABEL is looking for US
Straight Edge bands who want to put out a 7”
in Germany or want a new release of their old
7". Bands with a message can send a demo/
studio/master tape with lyrics and info about
the band. Write and send your tapes to: Markus
Haas, Lowenstr.10, 7920 Heidcnheim 5,
W. Germany.

GOING TO AMERICA; Feb / March searching
for a place to stay (can pay) In the following
cities: NY, LA, San Fran., Chicago, Seattle,
Detroit, San Diego, Washington, Boston. I’m
male, straight edge influenced, vegetarian.
Please write for more information about my
person and my travel intentions. Markus Haas,
Lowenstr. 10,7920 Heidenheim 5, W.Germany.

THIS IS MY LAST 2 dollars, so help me out. 22
yr.old guy trying to relocate to S.F./Oakland
area, Jan91. Can help w/rent and cook and
clean. Need a place to live please help me. Chim
1501 Foote St. Conway, 15027 PA (412) 869-
4814.

AVCTION/TRADE Heresy-Thanks(red),
Brotherhood- JNo Tolerance (blue), Rapemaiv*
tutt prack (clear), Jawbreaker?/
Whacjc+Blite-orig (marble), Crimpshrine-
Lame Gig (2nd press), WANTS Final Conflict*
In tfie Family, Shudder to Think* Arson
(Sammieh). Tony Salemo,3Wl S.K^Uwbrth*-
Berwyn, II60402. 1 ’

FOR SALE Personality Crisis-Creatures for a
While, DOA- Something Better Change,
Crimpshrinc-Lame Gig Contest, Accuscd-
Martha Splattcrhead, Angry Samoans- Right
Side of my Mind (orig). Set Sale, call (206) 935-
9309 ask for Shitbag, After 4pm wk.

BLENDER FROM RELLt Death Jazz Funk
Punk r the way only brain damaged mutants
fropi New Jersey can mangle it. Tape “Lo-
botomy FbrBobby ” only $3 from the Cruiously
Strong Peppermints c/o 31Q Red Hill Rd,
Middletown, NJ 07748

WANTED: Feederz- Teachers in Space lp, Jesus
ep, Deadbeats- Kill the Hippies lp. Die Vixens,
Concrete Sox- Your Turn Next lp, Subhumans-
Oh Canaduh+Firing Squad 7”, Jonathan
Richman- The Modern Lovers lp, anything by
G.I.S.M, I & Brainoater- Artist, Poet, Thief lp,
Write to me if you have’em to sell or trade. Tom
Pluck, 291 park ave. 3-3B, Nutley, NJ 07110.

FOR SALE: Sex Pistols record collection. Most
uncommon, some common, all in good condi¬
tion. Will send records all together or individu¬
ally. Write for list. Chris 14634 Big Timber In.
St. Louis MO, 63017.

I NEW First Strike releases: Out now are Drive-
No Girls 12” and Libido Boyz-Childhood
Memories 7” (different B side to US version)On
the way a re Cha i n Of S t renght- WhatHolds...7"
and Steadfist-Our Turn 7". Send IRC’s for
catalogue to FSR, 39-41 Hallgate, Wigan, WN1
1LR England, Tel 0492 826598. Distributed in
USA by Revolver, Tel 415 695 1637

NOT FOR THE WEAK Fanzine #2 available
now with Killing Time, Bom Against, Gorilla
Biscuits, Supertouch an the usual reviews. #1
still Available with Sick Of It All, Judge,
Radicts, Vision, Uppercut and more, Each is
$1.50 ppd to George 36 Newell Place
N.Arlington, NJ 07032. Olde English Rule!

DESPERATELY SEEKING John Slepinski aka
Ski. If anyone knows him or where he could be,
please get in touch with me. If you know him,
show him this ad, I’m really worried and would
likr any info anyone has on his whereabouts.
Rebecca (516) 829-8353 (Call Any time)

I WILL RE visiting America NQV/Pec 90-91
and Pm looking for kind people to briefly put
me up/ go out with in LA, SF, Seattle, Minne¬
apolis, Chicago. Can pay my own way and
willing to reciprocate in Australia. I am 24,
Vegetarian, not into hard drugs but otherwise
open minded. If you can help, please write
ASAP, Paul 4 Pp box 50267 Melbourne Victoria
3001 Australia

WANTED Interestenting friends through the
mail, I’m into Jane’s Addiction, Fugazi, Mis¬
fits, and much more, I love to exchange poetry
and ideas. Anyone write! I promise to respond.
SarahTomlinson.box 192,Routc32,Modomak,
ME 04551.

MASTER BEATS Presents- Art Of Kill, Evo¬
lution Disproven Volume 1. A spectacular noise/
grind compilation> Featuring over 120 tracks
by assorted UK noise acts ! 1 Comes with cover
and ace 8 page booklet, but hurry limited
amount. Send 2 punds (UK) $3 (World) to
Mark Flat 2,2 Claremont road Liverpool LI5
3HH England. Bands send noise stuff for inclu¬
sion.

WANTED Sell me these records please! Judge-
New York Crew 7”, Swiz- Down 7", No For An
Answer- You Laugh 7", Shelter7", Gorilla Bis¬
cuits 7", Sick of It All 7”, Breakdown 7". If you
have any of the above records and will sell
them please write to Heath 5608 Via Ravenna
Goleta CA 93117

SET SALE Black Flag every LP and 12” $10
each, V $5 Exploited every LP $10 each, V $ 5
Necros Sex Drive 7" (blue) $15 Social Distor¬
tion Mommy’s V (clear) $10, Agnostic front
United T (blue) $15 Youth of Today Can’t
Close 12” $15 Cult Sonic Temple LP(veiy rare
red wax) $40 Make money order payable to
Adam Lyon 807 Ashford st. Simi Valley CA
93065 - •

FREE TAPES! buy 5 PPP tapes & get 1 free!
$ 3 ppd each! Send a stamp for free catalogue
of over 50 HC/grind/death tapes to Provocative
Punk Productions c/o Mark Murray 1675
Vernon St #39 Roseville CA 95678

LARGE Record Sale, over 500 items mostly T",
lots of SubPop, Noise, Hardcore, very fair prices.
Write or calf for list, Mark Box 1065 Stanton
CA 90680 Tel 714 841-8781

RECORDS ARE BORING! but I got about 1500
of them which are up for auction> Send $2 for
complete list including 7” by Catatonics,
Cynamid, Confuse, Fog, Gism, Heresy, Larm,
MDC, Morbid Angel, Negative Approach, Ncos,
Unity, Cro Mags+Gang Green 10", CIA lp,
Septic death 12" and lots more. Ends Oct 1st
Bernd Backhaus , Am Schamberge 56, 46030
Bochum 5 West Germany.

TRADE Negative Approach 7’ep w/insert
Touch & Go #7 (original) For Agnostic Front
United blood ep (original) or Bad Religion ep
(original) Interested? Write Mickey O’d 19320
Stiff more st. apt 116 Canyon Country CA
91351,' v- .• -'Y' - v

ALL! NO ALL! I’m into Descendents, All,
Greenday, Doughboys, Jawbreaker, Big Drill
Car, etc. If you want to trade tapes, flyers or
anything else, please write. Eduardo Castillo,
74o Myrtlewood Ln., Key Biscayne, FL 33149

TOR SALE: MISFITS - Static Age 1+2, All
Hell,.., Beyond Evil LP, Demonomania: LP,
also audio and video, Qther bands as we)L
Trades welcome. Tom Cody, 6 ftblte St,
Cranston, RI02910, Unit, 101 : : ^ !

J GHASTLY MAGAZINE is seeking any and all
■ submissions (fiction, poetry, art, articles, in¬
terviews, etc.) dealing with themes dark and
mysterious. All contributors receive free copy.
Gothic/horror influenced bands and people
encouraged to write: Nosferatu Productions,
3790 El Camino Real, Suite 218, Palo Alto, CA
94306

GERMANY’S ‘GELD HER!’ mail oredr If! al¬
ways looking for world-wide stuff to sell over
here...Trades for my own label releases
a rewelcome: Subvert, Joyce McKinney e

I AM GETTING sent to a catholic school for a
better education. Please send all letters of sym¬
pathy and shirts with collars and sleeves to
Emilie, 505 Zion Ln, Zionsville, IN 46077

CRIMPSHRINE - “LAME Gig Contest” LP is
still available from eMpTy Europe so don’t
trade for it. Send $10 seamail or $13 airmail to
eMpTy Records, Muggenhoferstr. 39, 8500
Numberg, W. Germany

HORROR BUSINESS (yellow), 3 Hits (white
vinyl/white cover), Initium (red), Unholy Pas¬
sion (white), Ail brand new condition guaran¬
teed except 3 Hits (M-). No dealers. No calls
after 10/1/90. Chris E. (415) 525-7453 - Berke¬
ley. Have more too. > x •

FOR SALE OR TRADE: Crippled Youth 7",
Underdog 7" (1st press), Uniform Choice
“Screaming...” 12" (red vinyl), Uniform Choice
“Starting...” test pressing. Looking for SUilag
13 “In Control” LP. Also selling Counter Punch
t-shirts, $10 ppd. Jeff Ferris, 915 N. 52nd St
#1004, Phoenix, AZ 85008

RARE PUNK FOR SALE: Hundreds of punk
records, tapes, CDs, shirts, posters, sticxers,
buttons, photos and more for reasonable prices.
Misfits, Slaughter and the Dogs, DO A, Blitz,
Crucifix, Rudimentary Peni and more. 2-year
anniversary going on now, many things at cost.
For big catalog, send 2 250 stamps or 2 IRCs to
Dr. Strange Records, PO Box 7000-117, Alta
Lpma, CA 91701 £'. * ",

PUNK, HARDCORE, NEW Wave collection for
sale. Germs, Misfits, Damned, Costello, Riot
City, Oi, Siouxsie, Sisters, XTC, Discharge and
more. Tons of great stuff! Huge list finally

I’M SEARCHING for camouflage Converse

Chucks (size 6 new or used ). I pay very good
and will give you in addition a very limited
Confuse 7"! For tips and offers write to: Stefan
Walz, Hagen bacher Str. Z7,672g Worth, West
Germany.

LOOKING FOR: Septic Death “Time is the
Boss” 10" & “Burial” 7", Slaughter “Noctemal
Hell” 7", Reagan Youth Vol. 1 (original), Bored
Youth 7", LWS 7",(Impatient) Youth “Front¬
line” 7" & s/t 7", Undead 7"s. Offers to: Thomas
Mayer, Bidemsstrasse 15, 7310 Bad
Ragaz,(Switzerland).

RECORDS FOR SALE: Gorilla Biscuits Lp
(purple), Beyond Lp (test press), Unity Lp (test
press), Walk Proud Lp (test press), DYS Lp,
Stalag 13 Lp, Bad Brains “I Against I” Lp
(clear) .Many more Lp’s and 7"s for sale, call for
list and prices. Kcnt/(717) 3947677.

SODA CAN wants to thank ev$$6ne who supJ *
ported the “Powertool” tour, especially Giles
and Muncie gang, Aaron in Carbondale, Roa<J
kill and the target dudes in Chicago, Econo-
Christ and Joel in Flint, Mary in Iowa, The
Unicom in Milwaukee and everyone in Madi¬
son. Thanks for A great time and keep the beat.
Please write us at: Box 813 Chatham, NJ 07928.

COOL SWEDISH STUFF: Jesus exercise - 3
song Ep. 5$ p.p., Max and the chainsaws -7
songEp. 4$ p.p. For ordering info on the bands,
or if you just love to write , then write to: Max
| Thornell, Asv. 6, 35249 Vaxjo, Sweden.

FOR SALE / TRADE; Hsker Du “Land Speed OH NO IT'S another mailorder! well, maybe,
Record”(new alliance original, still sealed), have any info that can help me? Anything
Unity “YouareOne”,C2D 7 ,Minutemen “Bean would be greatly appreciated,.Write to j^ouft
Spill”, Necros “IQ32”, Sonic Youth”Death Estefania, 148U Sylvan St. #4, Nuya, £JA
Valley 89“ 7“ (Iridescence), X “Adult Books” V . 91411. * V ; # ' ^

(Dangerhouse), Swiz “Down*! (Green), Buthole
Surfers “Cream Com” 12" (clear), NYHC “Wild

TESTTHEFIRSTAMENDMENT! GetPoppin’
Zitsl 48 pages of Hackers, Drugs,
SadoMasochism & Weird Religion! Get hate
mail from the A.L.Fand visits from the SS! All
this for just $3.00 cash, or WORTHY trade and
5 oz postage to: Jerod Pore, 1800 Market St.
#141, San Francisco, CA 94102.

TOOTH & NAIL Sealed copies of rare Upsetter
compilation with Germs, U.X.A.., Negative
Trend, etc. available for $27.00 ppd. each.
Overseas add $5.00. First come, first serve.
Ryan Richardson/Box 5090/ Wesleyan Station
222 Church Street/ Middletown, Connecticut
06457.

FOR SALE/TRADE; ]FU'S “Rock” EP, DOA
“Triumph”, YOT” Vienna”LP, Septic Death
Dbl 7", ent-live, Misfits “Creepshow”-20 song
boot LP, “Fresh Flesh” “Static Age/8Track”EP
Agnostic Front “United” Boot, Raw Power 1st

& more.,..,.Tili Neurafh/ Lebb^ier Str, 4/617/
28 Bremen 33 W. Germany :' v

JANOR HYPERCLEETTS rant cassette! The
Church Of The Subgenious’ Master Ranter
speaks his (lack of) mind. The Janor Dcviee-
$7.50 ! The Janor Device Part 2- “I’m too buzy
hating” $.50! Also, Little Rock’s most hated
band- Dr’s For Bob- “A Lewd Spectacle of
Wanton Depravity” $7.50 Send check or money
order to Janor, 422 1/2 S. Martin, Little Rock
AR 72205.

City, OK 73140

PUNIfc HARDCORE NEW Wave record coi-
leqtidfcfor sale, the good .the mre, the ones you
wankMisf its - Beware! 2^ 7 Seconds - Skins,
Walk Tpgether-Germs - Lexicon Pevil. Minor
Threat - Filler T\ Also Blitz, Crass, Discharge,
Damned +; All original, all mint. You get the
picture. Send SiASE for22 pages of typing. Get
the list, buy the records. Chris S, Box 30Q145,
Midwest City, QK 73140

DESPERATELY SEEKING the following
Napalm Death vinyl: N.D.-”live” 7"ep., N.D. /
S.O.B. hard vinyl ep. (not flexi), N.D.-From
“Enslavement” gatefold LP w/ 7"ep., N.D.-12
Bootleg, N.D.-’’Mentally Murdered r ’7”ep (mint
vinyl preferred, but still interested if not too
badiv used / abused). Also looking for any N.D.
bootlegs, rare vinyl, posters, flyers, VHS tapes
,etc. send prices and info to: S.A.M., 427 Jemez
Rd. Santa Fe, N.M. 87501

GRJNDEATH CORE pen pals / tape traders
wanted. Hey 1 I'm seeling correspondence from

would be
Estefania,
91411.

Things;”

Lane Apt # 101L Auburn

Anthony, 3120 Bloomfield

, MI 48326.

from England, U.fc., Sweden, U SAy Europe
who would like to become pen paW & tape
traders. Grindcore & p«?at%et$i (send for
huge list) myfaves include?; Assuck, Terrorize^,
Cai^s ,Benediction,' Agathocles. It'e pretty
bomg here so write soon, all leters will be

ECHO, THAT’S ME. I’m 18, female, into punk/
SE/HC etc. I’m in need... for friends, info, and
contacts in Texas (Houston area) as soon as
possible. I’ll also be needing the above in CO,
NM, UT, AZ and CA and every other state and
country. Jenn/Echo, P.O. Box 102, Mora, NM
87732. P.S. Thanks to all have written.

M1SF1TS/SAMHAIN packet #3 now available
with even more fliers, early interviews, cool
pictures, etc. $8.00 +$1.00 Postage (Don’t worry,
it’s bigger then both #1 which is $5.00 + $1.00
postage or Packet #2 which is also still avail¬
able for $7.00 + $1.00 postage.) Kris McL./P.O.
Box 867262/Plano, TX 75086-7262/Ph#
(214)517-1230.Call for current list of records!

BROKEN CHINA'S first 4-song demo. Out now
foronly $3.00, T-shirts $5.75, sweatshirts $9.25,
tank tops $4.25. Send cash or M.O. to: China's/
106 St. James Pl./Gleno!der,PA. 19036. Also
the band would like to th$nk the local scene for
its support, -y ■ "V -"••• •- v ' L- ; • , ;

SINGLE MAN, 35, Spiritual, accepting of
others, well-expressed opinions, avid music
collector, loves music (psychedelic garage-
punk, folk, country, and soul), avid songwriter,
addicted to compact disc bargain-hunting,
seeking friendship, all ages. Jeffrey, P.O. Box
301/Indiana,PA 15701

SMARTING ABSCESS MAGAZINE- Need
• CcmtribuUdhs from cool punk bands/ people.
Due out irfiDecember. Anyone who donates
money to help with Its production/printing
costs will be thanked profusely. Contributors
get free issue. Also going to tiy my hand at a
recors/tape label. Send your contrlbutiond to
.Abscess Magazine: c/o Ben Davis/ 104
Willowdell/Toccoa, GA 30577/U.S.A.

ANARCHO-PUNK BANDS that would like
their demo-tape distributed at a non-profit
price please write: Burning BusSh/3744 N.
Amblcwood/Lima, OH 45806

19 YEARS OLD ANARCHIST/Atheist male
into hardcore, funk, reggae, rap, ska, alcohol,
marijuana, LSD, and sexual activity seeks cor¬
respondence with females of all races to talk
about feelings, points of view or whatever comes
to mind. Write to Sergio, 6725 Gateshead L.
#1A, Indianapolis, IN 46220. No racists or
nationalists.

ATTENTION ALL STUDS - Hot and bothered
lonely female seeks erotic correspondence with
people into sexperimentatlon, etc. Give me
some mail to pull me through a lonely night.
Hugs and tongue kisses. Write to J. Castaldi,
Virgo Hall Room 218, Vincennes University,
Vincennes, IN 47591.

FREE TO THOSE who send two 250 stamps.
‘Longshot’ fanzine featuring Nuclear Assault,
7 Seconds, Carry Nation and Token Entry. One
hundred left so act now! Longshot fanzine,
P.O. Box 546, Furlong, PA 18925.

SCOOBY SNACK PRODUCTION? is always
acwptingyourband’sdemolprupccmiingcomp. h
tape releases. Tape # L ?$be Copernicus Reyo-
iution’Vwill be out in JDec^ber, There's plerity
of time left so don't delay. All jwho contribute
will be included and receive a free copy;£IP
racist, sexist or fascist Shit. Send stuff toMarc
Hanson, 321 N. Duluth #4, Sioux Falls, SD
57104. Stomp!

HOMINA! HOMINA! HOMINA! Hev, do you
trade flyers? Yippee! Send info, on flyers that
you have and I will send you my info. I will
accept either originals or photcopies. If you
have Dead Silence flyers - then fuckin’ write
me for sure! Midwest - especially Colorado
people, write! Please respond to Marc Hanson,
321 N. Duluth #4, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
57104.

YO! WHERE ARE ALL the S/E people in Or¬
egon? We have a band in the works, all we need
is a drummer. Anyone willing to play drums in
an original SE/HC band contact me! Also any
SE’rs in Oregon and everywhere else, write me!
Carey, 1625 Avon Way, Forest Grove, OR 97116.

FOR SALE ONLY ! 12"S: C.O.P.-”Sounds...”
“Mind...”, Beyond Posession-”Is...”,
P.Idea-”Kings...”, Nip Drivers -’’Destroy...”,
Andry Somaoans-” Bacck From...”, (Bad Trip),
Attitude Adjustment-” No More...”, “Ameri¬
can...”, English Dogs-”To Ends...Earth”, In¬
fest, Head Of David,-’’Dustbowl’Test Press),
Accused “Return...” (Sub Core orig.) Gauze
“Fuckheads”,’’Equalizing”, S.O.B.-
“...Swindle”, NO TRADES, NO TIME WAST¬
ERS! Send stamp for reply! Bids Only! To:
Dodger Legstrong/ 5707 Gilbert Ave./ Parma,
OH 44129/ USA only! Sorry!)

DAVE SMALLEY. The Rule of Thumb 7 H is
totally great! This short note, just to say that
we still support you and fully appreciate your
everlasting support of the S.E. movement, we
love you always.XXX The Belgium Straight
Edge.

WANTED: Dammit: Ray Pettibon books, older
stuff. Will pay reasonable prices. Sam McP./
P.O. Box 1145 Cooper Station/ NYC< NY 10276.

FOR SALE OR TRADE; Misfits ‘hree Hits From
Hell”7" (1st pressing). “Halloween”7” t
“Evillive”7", “Horror Buisness' 7”,
Samhain”Intium”LP ( Red Vinyl), “Unholy
Passion” EP (red vinyl). Call for prices or
trades. Kris McL./ P.O.Box 867262/ Plano, TX
75086-7262/ PH #(214) 517-1230.

I’M JONESIN’ FOR some pen pals while at
school in Vermont. NO meat, No Drugs, No
Alcohol. I’m just some kid trying to change this
fucking world. Patrick McQuown/ Box 854
Johnson State College/ Johnson, VT 05656.

FOR SALE! Drunks w/Guns 1st single, Bad
Brains “Pay...” No PS, Bapeman “Hated
Chinee”, Die Kruezen, “Cows...”, GaangGreen”
Sold Out” black, Melvins “Oven’’Pink, and
many more! Write Tim? P.O.Box 460 Somers
Pt., N.J. 08244/ or call (609) 927-6352

FOR SALE: Green River “Rehab Doll” Green
Vinyl, $25.00, Discharge” The Price Of Si¬
lence” &” $20.00. DRI” Violent Pacification”
7" $20.00, Battalion Of Saints “Second Com¬
ing” LP $20.00. All records mint. ToddHignite/
1807 S. Locust, Dellinger Hall Room #505/
Pittsburg, KS 66762.

FOR SALE/TRADE: Misfits (Invasion From
Mars), Poison Idea (Filth Kick), Fuck Ups (FU
82), 7 Seconds (Blasts), Blacj Flag (6-Pack,
Nervous Breakdown), Subhumans (Rats, Reli¬
gious Wars), Effigies (We’re Da Machine), Mau
Maus, Screwdriver, and more. Write for record
list, Looking for anything to do with
Crimpshrine records, demos, etc. Joe Shorn oe/
1400 Edgehill/ Burlingame, CA 94010. 1 v ^

COWBOY KILLERS New EP! First 1000 on
colored vinyl. Awesome melodic punk thrash.
$3.00 US, $4.00 elsewhere, $6.00 air. Hellnation-
“Peoples Temple” EP still available, see MRR
#87 forreview. Cash payable to: Ken Hansford/
Sound Pollution Records/ P.O. Box 6072/
Florence, KY 41022-6072/ US funds only!

HOW DARE SOME OF YOU LOWLIFES sell
live tapes which you don’t have the rights to,

%&(*()_)&% Dork core Homo core girl core
type fanzine is avaiable now for Queerfreaks.
Chainsaw , one buck. Send me lots of mail.
Misfits unite. Love, donna, 2336 Market #128
SF, CA 94114.

TWO INDUSTRIAL FEMALES trapped in a
redneck college in SC. We'want penpals from
around the world to correspond with and visit.
Write us about upcoming shows in your area.
Kelly and Amanda/100 RiverbcndDr Apt. D28/
West Columbia, SC 29169

ADICTS RECORDS WANTED. Songs of Praise

HEY COLLECTOR SCUM! Big list for trade/
sale including Misfits, Big Black, D.O.A.,
Germs, and lots more from Europe and U.S..
Send SASE or 2 IRC’s for complete list to
Brian/P.O. Box 138/Elmhurst, IL 60126. Send
wants/trade lists.

HARDCORE BANDS Flaccid Records still
needs bands for “Rap Takes It Up The Ass”. An
unsigned North American H.C. comp. tape.
P.O.Box 559 /Chilmark, MA/02535

STARTING NEW ZINE need everything you
have: Ads, any type of music for review, com¬
ics, personals, bands send interviews, anything
you think should go into this zine. Please send
fast. Also if you want a copy ssend a $.25 stamp:
JASON: 1967 Volvo SW/106 St. James PI/ i
Golden, PA 19036.

MONDO-HOSS MAILORDER! Check out our
ad elswhere in this and every issue of MRR,
Cheap prices on all the tough to find 45’s, LP’s,
CD’s and more! Fast service too! The Skull
Duggery Label, 77 Scituate Avenue, Scituate,
MA. 02066

SAN FRANCISCO - All ages hall, doing 1-2
shows a month. Non profit group. Volunteers
interested in getting involved in shows call
Shawn @(415) 861-7549

CULTURECIDE - Ineed stuff by them. I have
two sealed copies of Depressed x-mas / “Santa
was my Lover 7” will trade only for stuff by
them. Have. “Year One” and “Tacky
Souveniers” LP’s. Need all els &info Randy
3468 S. 119th,West Allis, Wi. 53227.

WHERE WERE YOU July 21st, 1990 ? If you
were at the Paradise Club in Boston watching
The Dead Milkmen and if you had blond hair
and a Ramoncs t-shirt on write to me, the punk
in black with long bangs and shaved sides. I
must know your adress!!! Write me: Darin Ego,
Vining St., Lisbon Falls, Me. 04252

BARBARA - Please give me another chance, l
am sorry to have stood you up. I don’t want to
ruin a good friendship over a stupid misteak.
Please call or write me. - Matt,

GOTTA HAVE: Big Black “Peel Sessions”,
“Rema - Rcma”, Halo of Flies “NO Time”, Silt
Breeze Live 45, God Bullies “Fear and Pain”,
“Mama”, Sonic Youth / Mudhoney 45, Drunk
Tank 45, Tad / Pussy Galore 45, Killdozar “Her
Mother’s Sorrow”, Rapeman “Inkis”. I have
for trade SY “Speak No Evol”, “Dog”, Pussy
Galore “Love you Live”, Dinosaur “Quest”,
Mudhoney “Peel Session” . Anyone who wants
to trade, sell, or just bullshit, write: Bruce, 6021
W. Fleming Rd., Atwater, Ca. 95301

SOMEBODY HELP ME! I need D.Y.S.
“Brotherhood”, F.U 's “Kill for Christ”, Bad
Religion 7”, A.O.F. 7"s, Violent Children 7",
Art. PesceV Exiled 7", and both Fix 7 M *. All
must be origional and in good condition. No
boots! Good $$$ paid. Write: Matt, 171 Madi¬
son Ct„ Holland, Pa. 18966.1 always respond!

SKULL SESSION FANZINE wants bands to
put on comp, tapes. These bands will be in¬
cluded in future issues of the ‘zinc. All bands on
the comp, will get a free copy. Brad Mitchell/
3187 Keynes Court/ Mississauga, Ontario/ L5n
227/ Canada.

FOR SALE rare hard core 7"s and LPs-
Meatmen, Misfits, Heart Attack, AMPREP stuff
and more. Send S.A.S.E. for large set sale list.
U.S. only please no overseas orders. Reason¬
able prices. Tim Welsh/P.O. Box 446/South
River, N.J. -08882.

WANTED, all things for my ‘zine, bands please
write me! Issue # 10 out now. Also, want to
trade records. I have lots to trade, send me your
want/trade list. N.M. zine Marcel
Parelvissersstraat/392 7323 CL Appledom,
Holland.

DUMT is a thrash/punk band that has been
called ;”a bunch of looniewacks on the run” by
John Book, a fat guy with glasses. Find out why
by buying their first demo, “Dumoed Again ,
for $4.00. A split 7’' EP with Outright is coming
out soon on Overkill Records, so write: P.O.Box
301 /Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-0301.

COLOR PHOTOS Jesus & Mary Chain, Nine
Inch Nails, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ramones,
Gwar, Debby Harry, and more. Send S.A.S.E.
for color catalog to: Brett/ 1723 Knightwick/
Houston, TX 77008.

NON - PROFIT MUSIC! Send $1.00 and a blank
tape (or an equal trade) for the new The Orgas¬
mic Toilet Band live and “studio” tape. Joseph
A. Gervasi/142 Frankford Ave./ Blackwood,
NJ 08012. V , ; ,v >

DICKIES, DICKEIS, ALL DICKIES !!!!!
Record company needs several bands for Dick¬
ies covers for upcoming compilation tape. We
don’t want clones, but unique interpretations
of Dickies tunes. Just send a couple of tracks
and a bio. If you’re in doubt send it anyway.
Foreign bands welcome. Juanz/1602 Grrenup
St. #3 /Covington, KY 41011.

INTERNATIONAL BANDS we need you!
Record company needs demos from several
foreign bands for upcoming international
compilation. Just send demo, bio, and phone.
We are also doing some international travel,
and need places to stay, especially Auckland,
Frankfurt,Zurich, Berlin, and anywhere else.
Send to Juanz Intemational/1602 Greenup #3/
Covington, KY 41011.

MEATSHITS; ‘Lot There Be Shit” Home video
now available! 2 hours of sickness, it costs
$12.00 ppd (U.S.A.), $15.00 (world) VHSonly!,
cash only! Please state your age when ordering
(Must be 18). Meat Shits c/o Robert/ P.O.Box
577241/Modesto, CA 95357-7241/U.S.A.

MEAT SHITS: “Bowel - Rot” and “Regurgi-’.
tated Semen” demos (Reviewed in MRR # 85 i
and #87) ae still available for $4.00 ppd (Cash
Only) all over the world! Guaranteed to make
you shit blood, Meat Shits c/o Robert/ P.03ox
577241/ Modesto, CA 95357-7241/U.S.A. * *

tape shows t
Amen. Ross.

money.

Hampshire Ln. E/ Hinsdale, IL 60521.

j OI/SKA BANDS - Wc’rc thinking of starting
an American Oi and ska label, but have a small
problem...WE NEED A GOOD BANDMlNon-
political bands send demos if interested in
hearing yourself on vimyl. Send to: BANDS/
P.O.Box #631/Red Lion PA 17356/U.S.A.

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ve had to do any longer. We had to get down with it. We had to

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common development in our... in, you know, what we were doing
<e our common goal as people.

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Boston last year. Wasn’t that a big factor in the origin of Strke Out?

□ show by Slapshot fans because we were wearing baseball jerseys
100 Slapshot fans? Not that it would have solved anything.

baseball, not hockey. Then I yelled back that at least in baseball
>ey do in hockey. Then he waved that hockey stick in my face and
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a kind of medatative state when you do those things?

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never get away from your faults as a human being, just as you can n<
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really making anyone understand you.

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Phil: Yeah, I think...

Will: Like my father used to always say, "It's not
who you're talking to it's whether or not they're
gonna listen to you." I think that kind of sums up
my philosophy on communication.

MRR: So, Strike Out is a straight-edge band?

Will: Yes!

Jimmy: We don't drink or take drugs. Never have
and definitely never will. Those things, or rather,
doing those things, can only drain your will and
vision as well as your wallet! We have too much
energy on our own without resorting to a mind¬
less substance that will destroy the best parts of
your bodies and brains. We wear X's on our
hands to show the world that we are serious! We
also put X's on the backs of our baseball mits
because not only are we staright when we do
shows, but also when we play games and tour¬
naments.

Will: I mean, just imagine us out there on the field,
stoned on pot or something, trying to catch a fly
ball or even trying to remember what inning it is
or what team we are. I've seen people who
smoke pot a lot and they never have anything to
say to me. If they do, I never understand them.

L. Drive: Or hardly ever.

Jimmy: At the same time, there are these people
who drink all the time. Now, Cooperstown is filled
with people who drink and go see games and
we certainly don't condone that. All of this alco¬
hol for sale at baseball games, it's not good. It
takes away from the magnificence of the sport.

I think the sale of alcohol at baseball games
should be banned, it only leads to arguments
and fights and car accidents on the way home.

Cooperstown has had its share of automobile
accidents.

Will: Then, you've got these sports figures who go
on T.V. and promote beer. It's wrong, and they
should see that. We've got a new song about this
called "Lite Beer, I Don't Care". Some of the
are, "Watching the game on TV, To my
surprise, what did I see?, A man I once admired
and inspired me. In a bar holding a brew. Trying
to sell it to me." It's a song about feeling let down
when you realise that someone very important to
you has given in to such pressure. What are little
kids gonna do when they see that? Those little
kids, who are very easily influenced, are gonna
try to be like their heroes. It could have hap¬
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